SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON

SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON is a close-knit elementary school in ROCHESTER, New York, run under ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 301 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 25,949 students; SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON is among them.

Demographically, SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON lists that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 82% 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 44.9%; actual is 11.6%, a gap of -33.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Monroe County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

Nearest neighbor: SCHOOL 25-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 17.1%.

SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. SCHOOL 2-CLARA BARTON's enrollment has edged down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 386 (now 301). Black enrollment moved from 77% to 69% across the same window.

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