SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS

As a moderately sized K-5 school in ROCHESTER, New York, SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS instructs 485 students from grades pre-K through 6, operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 25,949 students. SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS reports that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 22% Hispanic, 12% White, 12% Asian, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Monroe County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 44.9%; actual is 14.1%, a gap of -30.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Monroe County shows median household earnings sit near $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 5-JOHN WILLIAMS is one.

SCHOOL 17-ENRICO FERMI is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 12.4%.

SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS has edged down 26%, going from 658 students in 2018 to 485 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 19% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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