UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN

UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN operates as a modestly sized 9-12 campus in ROCHESTER, New York, run under UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN. Current enrollment sits at 514 students spanning grades 6 through 12. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN sits inside UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN shows that Black students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder comes out to 17% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at school resources, About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 52.5%; actual is 23.3%, a gap of -29.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Monroe County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: EXPLORATION ELE CS - SCIENCE-TECHNOL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 13.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MEN's enrollment has increased 37% since 2018, when it stood at 374 (now 514). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 80% to 71%.

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