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Enrollment
759
Middle
DISTRICT 852 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRIGHTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360546000275
TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
2643 ELMWOOD AVE, ROCHESTER, NY 14618 · (585) 242-5100 · Monroe County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL759 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of New York public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
83 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
192 students
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 241 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 248 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 261 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 1% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL→BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within BRIGHTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
71.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
73.7%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.0% | 73.7% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 75.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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 TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (72.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 759 | 25.3% | 72.0% |
| KODA MIDDLE SCHOOL CLIFTON PARK | 765 | 26.9% | 77.7% |
| ACADIA MIDDLE SCHOOL CLIFTON PARK | 761 | 25.2% | 77.9% |
| JAMESVILLE-DEWITT MIDDLE SCHOOL JAMESVILLE | 693 | 28.7% | 74.6% |
| WOODMERE MIDDLE SCHOOL HEWLETT | 644 | 25.5% | 64.4% |
| MILL MIDDLE SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 790 | 26.1% | 68.9% |
Matched among New York middle 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 TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #112 of 766 | #5 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.7% | #243 of 768 ▼ 17 | #16 of 29 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #97 of 768 ▼ 20 | #4 of 28 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 759 | #184 of 796 | #8 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.2:1 | #148 of 683 | #10 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #230 of 688 | #13 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.3% | #662 of 773 | #28 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.9% | #169 of 524 | #1 of 16 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
759
-77 (-9%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 618
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 759 | 82.6 | 9.2:1 | 25% (192) |
| 2023-24 | 791 | 78.8 | 10.0:1 | 23% (183) |
| 2022-23 | 781 | 78.9 | 9.9:1 | 25% (195) |
| 2020-21 | 836 | 75 | 11.2:1 | 22% (182) |
| 2017-18 | 925 | 76.6 | 12.1:1 | 18% (164) |
| 2015-16 | 827 | 75 | 11.0:1 | 15% (126) |
| 2010-11 | 876 | 74 | 11.8:1 | 11% (98) |
| 2000-01 | 928 | 68 | 13.7:1 | 8% (71) |
| 1990-91 | 618 | 46 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
The public middle school TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in ROCHESTER, New York. Federal data show 759 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 531 students for middle schools in New York.
BRIGHTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL. It has 4 schools and 3,409 students.
At TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL, 63% of students are White. The remaining students are 11% Asian, 10% Black, 8% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 57%.
TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL has 82.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 9.2:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in New York is 10.3:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 25% at TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL. The gap from the 50% average for public schools in Monroe County is 25 points.
Among New York public middle schools, TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 83%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 72.0% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 65.7%.
For Monroe County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $76,382, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. There are 186 public schools in the county, enrolling about 106,108, TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd of 8 on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 759, down from 836 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 11.2:1 to 9.2:1.
The TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 BRIGHTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,164 students
- COUNCIL ROCK PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 743 students
- FRENCH ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 743 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
- BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,164
- COUNCIL ROCK PRIMARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 743
- SCHOOL 15-CHILDREN'S SCHOOL OF ROCHESTER (THE)1.2 mi · 384
- SCHOOL 35-PINNACLE1.5 mi · 435
- SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER1.7 mi · 313
- GENESEE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL-FLOUR CITY CAMPUS1.8 mi · 158
Frequently asked questions
About TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 759 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 9.2:1 (83 FTE teachers).
How diverse is TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 63% White, 8% Hispanic, 10% Black, 11% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by BRIGHTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Monroe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.