SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON

Located at 450 HUMBOLDT ST, in ROCHESTER, New York, SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON is an average-sized elementary-level community that teaches 567 students (grades pre-K through 6), operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 28% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON is one of 51 schools operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 25,949 students overall.

On demographics, SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Monroe County (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.7%; this one comes in at 17.6%, -28.1 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Monroe County put median household income runs about $76,382, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

The closest other public school is ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON. On composite proficiency, SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.4%.

SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 666 students in 2018 compared to 567 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 34% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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