Enrollment
353
Elementary
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362475003392
SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD
465 SEWARD ST, ROCHESTER, NY 14608 · (585) 328-7454 · Monroe County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL353 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
285 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 73 | 21% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 26 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 41 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 27% larger than its 6th grade class (41).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
28.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
31.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.0% | 31.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 28.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD
SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD's state test result (28.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD this school | 353 | 80.7% | 28.2% |
| PS 138 BROOKLYN | 356 | 85.7% | 67.0% |
| NEW YORK FRENCH-AMERICAN CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 286 | 80.4% | 53.0% |
| NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY BROOKLYN | 431 | 81.2% | 54.5% |
| CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL JAMAICA | 297 | 80.1% | 39.8% |
| PS 198 BROOKLYN | 327 | 85.9% | 50.4% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #2,077 of 2,335 | #69 of 97 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #2,086 of 2,342 ▲ 3 | #69 of 97 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #2,162 of 2,343 ▼ 177 | #69 of 97 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 353 | #1,650 of 2,585 | #73 of 106 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.9:1 | #397 of 2,338 | #11 of 99 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.1% | #1,423 of 2,388 | #66 of 99 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.7% | #747 of 2,534 | #27 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.3% | #697 of 1,757 | #11 of 58 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
353
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 541
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
was 12.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 353 | 35.8 | 9.9:1 | 81% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 313 | 28.1 | 11.2:1 | 84% (262) |
| 2022-23 | 322 | 24.1 | 13.3:1 | 92% (297) |
| 2020-21 | 358 | 28 | 12.8:1 | 94% (335) |
| 2017-18 | 432 | 39 | 11.1:1 | 95% (412) |
| 2015-16 | 393 | 36 | 10.9:1 | 92% (360) |
| 2010-11 | 411 | 39 | 10.5:1 | 98% (404) |
| 2000-01 | 520 | 49 | 10.6:1 | 87% (452) |
| 1990-91 | 541 | 34 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD.
About SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD
This page covers SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD, a small elementary school in ROCHESTER, New York. The school counted 353 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 6. The school is 20% below the average for elementary schools in New York.
SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD is one of 51 schools in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 25,949 students in total.
The student body at SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD is 72% Black. It is also 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% White. Monroe County's residents are about 14% Black, 57 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 45, compared with 70 nationally.
SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD has 35.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 9.9:1. The school's 9.9:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 81%. That rate is above the 50% average among public schools in Monroe County.
On the allk12 Grade, SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD lands at D, ahead of 12% of New York public elementary schools.
Test results at SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD are 17.1 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (28.2% actual, 45.3% predicted).
The school's county is Monroe County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $76,382 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD shares Monroe County with 185 other public schools.
SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD places 1st out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
NCES describes the area around SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 358 in 2020-21 and 353 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.8:1 to 9.9:1 over the same years.
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Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
753,753
Census ACS
Median income
$76,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
106,108 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 1,065 students
- FRANKLIN UPPER SCHOOLHigh · 1,006 students
- SCHOOL 33-JOHN JAMES AUDUBONElementary · 980 students
- SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOLCombined · 896 students
Other schools in ROCHESTER
- ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 1Combined · 1,405 students
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,164 students
- IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,134 students
Nearby schools
- SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON0.5 mi · 301
- SCHOOL 25-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE0.5 mi · 471
- JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 868
- SCHOOL 4-GEORGE MATHER FORBES0.6 mi · 265
- JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY0.6 mi · 351
- LORETTA JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 416
Frequently asked questions
About SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORDHow large is SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD?
SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD enrolls approximately 353 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD serve?
SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD have?
SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.9:1.
What is the student diversity at SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD?
Student demographics at SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD are roughly 4% White, 16% Hispanic, 72% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD in?
SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD is part of ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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