SCHOOL 17-ENRICO FERMI

Located at 158 ORCHARD ST, in ROCHESTER, New York, SCHOOL 17-ENRICO FERMI is a mid-sized elementary campus that enrolls 525 students (grades pre-K through 6), part of ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 51 schools in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (25,949 students total), SCHOOL 17-ENRICO FERMI accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, SCHOOL 17-ENRICO FERMI logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment; the rest reads as 26% Black, 4% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Monroe County (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHOOL 17-ENRICO FERMI falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.2%; this one comes in at 4.3%, -42.8 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Monroe County shows median household earnings sit near $76,382, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 SCHOOL 17-ENRICO FERMI is one.

Nearest neighbor: SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL 17-ENRICO FERMI. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHOOL 17-ENRICO FERMI ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 14.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. SCHOOL 17-ENRICO FERMI's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 626 (now 525). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 39% to 26% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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