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RUSH-HENRIETTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 86 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RUSH-HENRIETTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
RUSH-HENRIETTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the sprawling four-year high schools in HENRIETTA, New York, one of the schools within RUSH-HENRIETTA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 1,317 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 97% above the state mean of about 668.
RUSH-HENRIETTA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,596 students. RUSH-HENRIETTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, RUSH-HENRIETTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 16% Black, 15% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, RUSH-HENRIETTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, RUSH-HENRIETTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.6%; this one delivers 58.0%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Monroe County put median household earnings sit near $76,382, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Monroe County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), RUSH-HENRIETTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is FLOYD S WINSLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RUSH-HENRIETTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Five-year trend. RUSH-HENRIETTA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,240 (now 1,317). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 63% to 52%.
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Monroe County at a glance
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