# JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362475003371`
- **School name**: JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL
- **Location**: ROCHESTER, NY 14607
- **Address**: 164 ALEXANDER ST
- **District**: ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3624750`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 43.14705, -77.59823
- **Phone**: (585)232-1530
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6139914 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monroe_High_School_(Rochester,_New_York)
- **Founded**: 1923

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 809
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 81
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 1
  - HS ELP: 2
  - HS CCCR: 1
  - HS Core Performance: 1
  - HS Weight Performance: 1
  - HS Grad Rate: 1
  - overall_status: Comprehensive Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 52.0% (cohort of 193)
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 147)
- **2019**: 61.0% (cohort of 201)
- **2018**: 47.0% (cohort of 169)
- **2017**: 50.0% (cohort of 206)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 4

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 52.5% (330 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.1% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 102.5% (665 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 58.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 37.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 30.5% — 198 students
- **English Learners**: 55.3% — 359 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 123 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 44 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $36,278
- **Federal share**: $8,026
- **State + local share**: $28,252
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 647
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $45,637,921
- **Federal share**: 24.4%
- **State share**: 64.3%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,463,202

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,137
- **Poverty rate**: 24.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.3%
- **Unemployment**: 5.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,042
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.2 miles (JONES CHEMICALS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 94
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.25 miles (DRAY 504 520 S CLINTON AVENUE BAP 10)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MCWA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.92377 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SCHOOL OF THE ARTS** — 0.9 mi away, 0.28% (this school: 1.23%)
- **SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 1.23%)
- **SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.23%)
- **VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.23%)
- **SCHOOL 15-CHILDREN'S SCHOOL OF ROCHESTER (THE)** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.23%)

### graduation rate
- **SCHOOL WITHOUT WALLS** — 0.1 mi away, 87% (this school: 52%)
- **SCHOOL OF THE ARTS** — 0.9 mi away, 95% (this school: 52%)
- **SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 88% (this school: 52%)
- **VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 83% (this school: 52%)
- **ROCHESTER EARLY COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 92% (this school: 52%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/james-monroe-upper-school-rochester
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/james-monroe-upper-school-rochester/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/james-monroe-upper-school-rochester/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/james-monroe-upper-school-rochester/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/james-monroe-upper-school-rochester/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/james-monroe-upper-school-rochester/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/james-monroe-upper-school-rochester/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/james-monroe-upper-school-rochester/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/james-monroe-upper-school-rochester/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/james-monroe-upper-school-rochester/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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