SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE

Located at 1445 CLIFFORD AVE, in ROCHESTER, New York, SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that serves 430 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 51 schools in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (25,949 students total), SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE lists that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 5% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Monroe County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.6%; SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE posts 10.0%, -32.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Monroe County put 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%. In all, Monroe County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), of which SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE is one.

The closest other public school is ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 3, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 15.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. SCHOOL 45-MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 528 (now 430). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 62% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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