SCHOOL 39-ANDREW J TOWNSON

Set in ROCHESTER, New York, SCHOOL 39-ANDREW J TOWNSON is an intimate elementary school, part of ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 330 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so SCHOOL 39-ANDREW J TOWNSON sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.

Within ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 51 schools and 25,949 students, SCHOOL 39-ANDREW J TOWNSON is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SCHOOL 39-ANDREW J TOWNSON lists that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 40% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SCHOOL 39-ANDREW J TOWNSON has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHOOL 39-ANDREW J TOWNSON falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 41.7%; this one comes in at 2.9%, -38.8 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Monroe County) reports that median household earnings sit near $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Monroe County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), SCHOOL 39-ANDREW J TOWNSON is one campus in the mix.

SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SCHOOL 39-ANDREW J TOWNSON comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 17.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 6-year window. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at SCHOOL 39-ANDREW J TOWNSON has edged down 46%, going from 613 students in 2018 to 330 in 2024. Black enrollment moved from 63% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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