SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER

SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in ROCHESTER, New York, run under ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 313 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 29% below the state mean of about 443.

SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER is one of 51 schools operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 25,949 students overall.

In terms of who attends, SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER reports that 41% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 34% White, 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.5%, the actual is 37.7%, a residual of -15.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Monroe County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: INNOVA GIRLS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER has declined 11%, going from 352 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 45% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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