Enrollment
332
Elementary
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362475003419
SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW
100 FARMINGTON RD, ROCHESTER, NY 14609 · (585) 482-9614 · Monroe County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL332 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
269 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 33 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 38 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 46 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 17% smaller than its 6th grade class (46).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
27.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 29.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
24.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW
SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW's state test result (24.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW this school | 332 | 81.0% | 24.3% |
| DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 377 | 83.0% | 4.8% |
| PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN NEW YORK | 344 | 79.4% | 40.6% |
| SHERIDAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY ALBANY | 284 | 85.2% | 32.3% |
| PS 307 DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS BROOKLYN | 270 | 84.1% | 20.9% |
| SCHOOL 54-FLOWER CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 325 | 87.7% | 18.4% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.3% | #2,163 of 2,335 | #71 of 97 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #2,254 of 2,342 ▼ 193 | #75 of 97 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #2,178 of 2,343 ▼ 191 | #71 of 97 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 332 | #1,792 of 2,585 | #81 of 106 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #1,496 of 2,338 | #72 of 99 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.4% | #441 of 2,388 | #27 of 99 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.0% | #741 of 2,534 | #26 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.9% | #1,482 of 1,757 | #47 of 58 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
332
+17 (+5%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 432
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 332 | 26.4 | 12.6:1 | 81% (269) |
| 2023-24 | 297 | 26.2 | 11.3:1 | 85% (253) |
| 2022-23 | 315 | 25.8 | 12.2:1 | 83% (263) |
| 2020-21 | 315 | 27 | 11.7:1 | 80% (253) |
| 2017-18 | 349 | 25 | 14.0:1 | 82% (285) |
| 2015-16 | 365 | 23 | 15.9:1 | 75% (273) |
| 2010-11 | 343 | 21 | 16.3:1 | 72% (248) |
| 2000-01 | 339 | 24 | 14.1:1 | 70% (236) |
| 1990-91 | 432 | 21 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW.
About SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW
This page covers SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW, a small elementary school in ROCHESTER, New York. The school teaches pre-K through 6 and enrolls 332 students. The school is 25% below the average for elementary schools in New York.
ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT operates 51 schools. Combined enrollment is 25,949 students.
About 48% of students at SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW are Black, the largest single group. It is also 30% Hispanic, 14% White, and 7% multiracial. Monroe County's residents are about 14% Black, 34 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 65% means there is a 65% chance two randomly chosen students at SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW are from different groups.
SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW has 26.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is close to this figure. At SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW, 81% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Monroe County averages 50%, lower than here.
SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 6% of New York public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW is in the bottom 10% of New York schools: 24.3% actual against 45.2% predicted.
In Monroe County, the median household earns about $76,382 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Monroe County has 186 public schools with about 106,108 students, including SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW.
HELENDALE ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW is 5th among 8 schools close by.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
The school's student count rose 5% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
753,753
Census ACS
Median income
$76,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
106,108 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 1,065 students
- FRANKLIN UPPER SCHOOLHigh · 1,006 students
- SCHOOL 33-JOHN JAMES AUDUBONElementary · 980 students
- SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOLCombined · 896 students
Other schools in ROCHESTER
- ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 1Combined · 1,405 students
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,164 students
- IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,134 students
Nearby schools
- HELENDALE ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 311
- EAST LOWER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 364
- EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 814
- SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON0.8 mi · 567
- ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL0.9 mi · 395
- SCHOOL 33-JOHN JAMES AUDUBON1.0 mi · 980
Frequently asked questions
About SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOWHow large is SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW?
SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW enrolls approximately 332 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW serve?
SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW.
How diverse is SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW?
SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW reports a student body of 14% White, 30% Hispanic, 48% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW in?
SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW is part of ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.