Rochester High School

Rochester High School operates as an one-room-style high school in Rochester, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Rochester Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 222 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 70% leaner than the state mean of about 738.

Rochester Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 749 students; Rochester High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Rochester High School logs that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest consists of 20% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Rochester High School reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 102% of students at Rochester High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Beaver County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Rochester High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.8%; this one delivers 41.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Beaver County indicate median household income runs about $71,089, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Beaver County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students), Rochester High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Rochester MS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rochester High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rochester High School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.6%.

Rochester High School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rochester High School has grew 7%, going from 208 students in 2018 to 222 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 25% to 20% over that span.

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