SCHOOL 50-HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY

SCHOOL 50-HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY operates as a mid-sized elementary school in ROCHESTER, New York, operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 590 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 33% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 25,949 students; SCHOOL 50-HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY is among them.

Looking at the student body, SCHOOL 50-HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY records that the largest single group is Black at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 14% White, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, SCHOOL 50-HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY records 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Monroe County's rate of about 50%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, SCHOOL 50-HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.1%; actual is 15.5%, a gap of -29.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Monroe County) records that median household income runs about $76,382, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Monroe County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), SCHOOL 50-HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PADILLA HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. 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 50-HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.1%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. SCHOOL 50-HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 590). Black enrollment moved from 47% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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