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Enrollment
878
High
DISTRICT 1,003 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361263001035
ODYSSEY ACADEMY
750 MAIDEN LN, ROCHESTER, NY 14615 · (585) 966-5200 · Monroe County
GRADES 06–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL878 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
566 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 95 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 94 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 113 | 13% |
| Grade 9 | 102 | 12% |
| Grade 10 | 153 | 17% |
| Grade 11 | 130 | 15% |
| Grade 12 | 168 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 23 | 3% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.3pp since 2023
Math
35.2%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 35.2% |
| 2023-24 | 41.3% | 34.1% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ODYSSEY ACADEMY
ODYSSEY ACADEMY's state test result (33.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ODYSSEY ACADEMY this school | 878 | 64.5% | 33.3% |
| WATERVLIET JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WATERVLIET | 785 | 69.3% | 30.9% |
| EASTRIDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 888 | 58.4% | 57.8% |
| TROY HIGH SCHOOL TROY | 1,193 | 68.1% | 57.2% |
| OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 1,090 | 56.2% | 37.2% |
| LANSINGBURGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL TROY | 625 | 69.8% | 60.5% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ODYSSEY ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #1,038 of 1,135 | #27 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #801 of 1,109 ▲ 30 | #23 of 35 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,063 of 1,135 ▲ 12 | #26 of 34 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 878 | #286 of 1,216 | #23 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #261 of 1,058 | #7 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.8% | #44 of 1,070 | #1 of 36 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.5% | #568 of 1,167 | #12 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #217 of 743 | #2 of 22 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
878
-119 (-12%) vs 2020
+11% since 1990-91, when it was 788
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 11.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 878 | 90.1 | 9.7:1 | 64% (566) |
| 2023-24 | 892 | 97.5 | 9.1:1 | 57% (507) |
| 2022-23 | 958 | 97.3 | 9.8:1 | 68% (652) |
| 2020-21 | 997 | 90 | 11.1:1 | 66% (660) |
| 2017-18 | 1,067 | 93 | 11.5:1 | 58% (621) |
| 2015-16 | 1,090 | 89 | 12.3:1 | 41% (448) |
| 2010-11 | 796 | 64 | 12.4:1 | 18% (147) |
| 2000-01 | 722 | 52 | 13.9:1 | 5% (38) |
| 1990-91 | 788 | 56 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ODYSSEY ACADEMY.
About ODYSSEY ACADEMY
ODYSSEY ACADEMY is a mid-sized high school in GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, located in ROCHESTER, New York. It enrolls 878 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 12. That puts enrollment 31% bigger than the 668-student average for high schools in New York.
The district, GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 17 schools serving 9,935 students.
Of every 100 students at ODYSSEY ACADEMY, about 39 are White, the largest group. The school is also 23% Black, 23% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 6% Asian. That is lower than the 70% White share among all Monroe County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 73%.
There are about 9.7 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at ODYSSEY ACADEMY, which has 90.1. High schools in New York have an average ratio of 11.0:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 64%. That is higher than the 50% average for public schools in Monroe County.
ODYSSEY ACADEMY holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 4% of New York public high schools.
On BeatsExpectations, ODYSSEY ACADEMY is 18.0 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Monroe County show that the median household earns about $76,382 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Across Monroe County, 186 public schools serve about 106,108 students.
ODYSSEY ACADEMY is about 0.5 miles from LONGRIDGE SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, ODYSSEY ACADEMY is 4th of 7 on proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, ODYSSEY ACADEMY is Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 12%, from 997 to 878. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 11.1:1 to 9.7:1.
The discussion board for ODYSSEY ACADEMY is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
753,753
Census ACS
Median income
$76,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
106,108 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,090 students
- ATHENA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,070 students
- ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 972 students
- ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 810 students
- LONGRIDGE SCHOOLElementary · 754 students
- ARCADIA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 673 students
Other schools in ROCHESTER
- ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 1Combined · 1,405 students
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,164 students
- IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,134 students
Nearby schools
- LONGRIDGE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 754
- OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,090
- BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 378
- ENGLISH VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 346
- GREECE COMMUNITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER1.2 mi · 269
- YOUNG WOMEN'S COLLEGE PREP CS1.6 mi · 356
Frequently asked questions
About ODYSSEY ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at ODYSSEY ACADEMY?
ODYSSEY ACADEMY enrolls approximately 878 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does ODYSSEY ACADEMY serve?
ODYSSEY ACADEMY serves grades 06-12.
How many teachers does ODYSSEY ACADEMY have?
ODYSSEY ACADEMY employs 90 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.7:1.
What is the student diversity at ODYSSEY ACADEMY?
Student demographics at ODYSSEY ACADEMY are roughly 39% White, 23% Hispanic, 23% Black, 6% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees ODYSSEY ACADEMY?
ODYSSEY ACADEMY is overseen by GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Monroe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.