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What's something SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
486
Elementary
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362475003382
SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM
31 BRYAN ST, ROCHESTER, NY 14613 · (585) 254-3110 · Monroe County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
11.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
394 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 90 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 65 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 25% smaller than its 6th grade class (65).
Student demographics
68%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
20.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
18.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.0% | 18.0% |
| 2023-24 | 9.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
14.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-30.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% 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 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM
SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM's state test result (14.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM this school | 486 | 81.1% | 14.9% |
| SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS ROCHESTER | 485 | 81.9% | 14.1% |
| SCHOOL 42-ABELARD REYNOLDS ROCHESTER | 465 | 82.2% | 14.4% |
| GIFFEN MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBANY | 387 | 82.2% | 14.5% |
| IDA B WELLS-BARNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 34 ROCHESTER | 465 | 87.5% | 21.3% |
| SCHOOL 25-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ROCHESTER | 471 | 82.6% | 22.9% |
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 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.9% | #2,296 of 2,335 | #82 of 97 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #2,274 of 2,342 ▼ 24 | #78 of 97 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #2,283 of 2,343 ▲ 39 | #77 of 97 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #897 of 2,585 | #37 of 106 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #931 of 2,338 | #45 of 99 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.1% | #313 of 2,388 | #22 of 99 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.1% | #740 of 2,534 | #25 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.3% | #1,198 of 1,757 | #37 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
486
-2 (0%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 651
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 486 | 43.4 | 11.2:1 | 81% (394) |
| 2023-24 | 443 | 34.1 | 13.0:1 | 82% (365) |
| 2022-23 | 439 | 35 | 12.5:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 488 | 38 | 12.8:1 | 92% (448) |
| 2017-18 | 536 | 44 | 12.2:1 | 95% (508) |
| 2015-16 | 610 | 41 | 14.9:1 | 93% (567) |
| 2010-11 | 596 | 49 | 12.2:1 | 83% (496) |
| 2000-01 | 711 | 53 | 13.4:1 | 72% (510) |
| 1990-91 | 651 | 30 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM.
About SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM
SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM is a medium-sized elementary school serving families in ROCHESTER, New York. Students in pre-K through 6 attend, and enrollment is 486 students.
ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 25,949 students in 51 schools, including SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM.
Black students are the largest group at SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM, with 48% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 9% White, and 7% Asian. County-wide, 14% of Monroe County residents are Black. By the diversity index, SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM comes in at 68%.
Teacher staffing is 43.4 full-time equivalents, or about 11.2 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. About 81% of students, or 394, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 50% for public schools in Monroe County.
The allk12 Grade for SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM is F. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 1% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM would score about 45.2%. It scores 14.9%, a bottom-10% result among New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
County data help place the school in context: in Monroe County, median household income is about $76,382, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM is among the 186 public schools in Monroe County.
The nearest other public school, EXPLORATION ELE CS - SCIENCE-TECHNOL, is about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM is 5th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES assigns SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
In 2020-21, SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM enrolled 488; in 2024-25, 486. Students per teacher fell from 12.8 in 2020-21 to 11.2 in 2024-25.
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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
- EXPLORATION ELE CS - SCIENCE-TECHNOL0.3 mi · 371
- IDA B WELLS-BARNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 340.4 mi · 465
- UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN0.6 mi · 514
- SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE0.9 mi · 436
- ANDREW A LANGSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 314
- RISE COMMUNITY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 341
Frequently asked questions
About SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOMHow many students attend SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM?
SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM enrolls approximately 486 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM serve?
SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM have?
SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the student diversity at SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM?
Student demographics at SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM are roughly 9% White, 26% Hispanic, 48% Black, 7% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM public or private?
SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.