RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Located at 279 W RIDGE RD, in ROCHESTER, New York, RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is a small primary school that teaches 341 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 25,949 students; RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL records that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 33% Hispanic, 11% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.5%; RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL posts 5.1%, -35.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate median household income runs about $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Monroe County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), of which RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one.

UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.

RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

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