PAUL ROAD SCHOOL

As a mid-sized elementary campus in ROCHESTER, New York, PAUL ROAD SCHOOL instructs 426 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,598 students. PAUL ROAD SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, PAUL ROAD SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder reads as 15% Black, 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PAUL ROAD SCHOOL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, PAUL ROAD SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.2%, the actual is 43.8%, a residual of -14.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. PAUL ROAD SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PAUL ROAD SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PAUL ROAD SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PAUL ROAD SCHOOL has shrank 4%, going from 442 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 62% to 56%. Class-load math has rose: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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