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ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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 K-12 schools
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 67 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 7% |
| Grade 6 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 74 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 61 | 7% |
| Grade 9 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 10 | 72 | 9% |
| Grade 11 | 50 | 6% |
| Grade 12 | 50 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 10% larger than its 8th grade class (61).
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.2% | 27.1% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 25.2% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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%.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 829 | 73.5 | 11.3:1 | 100% (828) |
| 2023-24 | 821 | 61.5 | 13.3:1 | 100% (821) |
| 2022-23 | 823 | 80.3 | 10.3:1 | 97% (796) |
| 2020-21 | 714 | 62 | 11.5:1 | 99% (706) |
| 2017-18 | 423 | 38 | 11.1:1 | 99% (420) |
| 2015-16 | 370 | 35 | 10.6:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 260 | 17 | 15.3:1 | 76% (197) |
About ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
Among the schools in ROCHESTER, New York, is ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, a large combined-grade school. The school's enrollment of 829 students covers kindergarten through 12. Enrollment is 52% higher than the average for combined schools in New York, which is about 544.
Federal records list ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL as its own district.
Black students are the majority at ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, with 78% of enrollment. Other groups make up 11% White and 10% Hispanic. Monroe County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 36% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's 73.5 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 11.3:1. On average, combined schools in New York have 8.7:1, compared with 11.3:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 100%. That is higher than the 50% average for public schools in Monroe County.
The allk12 Grade for ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is D. Compared with New York public K-12 schools, the school scored higher than 7% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The model predicts 38.3% for a school in New York with ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL posts 26.7%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Monroe County show that the median household income is $76,382, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Besides ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, Monroe County has 185 other public schools.
The closest other public school is JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
NCES assigns ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. As a charter school, ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is publicly funded and operates under a charter.
Enrollment is up 16% from 2020-21, when ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL had 714 students, to 2024-25, when it had 829.
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