SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

As a high-enrollment four-year high school in ROCHESTER, New York, SCHOOL OF THE ARTS instructs 1,065 students from grades 7 through 12, one of the schools within ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 59% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one of 51 schools operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that serves 25,949 students overall.

Looking at the student body, SCHOOL OF THE ARTS lists that 42% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 29% Hispanic, 23% White, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, SCHOOL OF THE ARTS shows 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHOOL OF THE ARTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 42.6%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Monroe County) records that median household earnings sit near $76,382, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 27.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHOOL OF THE ARTS has ticked down 6%, going from 1,139 students in 2018 to 1,065 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 48% to 42% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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