EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL

EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL, a roomy senior high in ROCHESTER, New York, part of ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 1,362 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 104% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Across the 51 schools in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (25,949 students total), EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL records that 50% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 39% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. 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, On paper, EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL has 155 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.8:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Monroe County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.0%; this one comes in at 20.7%, -21.3 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Monroe County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), of which EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 21%, going from 1,730 students in 2018 to 1,362 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 24% to 39%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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