SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE

SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE is a medium-sized K-5 school in ROCHESTER, New York, overseen by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 436 students in grades pre-K through 6.

SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE is one of 51 schools operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 25,949 students overall.

Looking at the student body, SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE logs that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.5%; actual is 9.3%, a gap of -37.1 points.

In the broader community, Monroe County reports that median household income runs about $76,382, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

The closest other public school is ANDREW A LANGSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 16.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 494 (now 436). The Black share of enrollment decreased from 64% to 47% over that span.

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