Public school / Primary
Dr Walter Cooper Academy
Rochester, New York
- NCES ID
- 362475006109
- District
- Rochester City School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dr Walter Cooper Academy is a public primary school in Rochester, New York, run by Rochester City School District. It enrols 336 students — the 60498th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
336
Teachers
28.0
Students per teacher
12.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
89.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Rochester City School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Edison Career and Technology High School1,233 students
- 2School of the Arts1,066 students
- 3Franklin Upper School969 students
- 4School 33-John James Audubon963 students
- 5School 58-World of Inquiry School951 students
- 6Northeast College Preparatory High School778 students
- 7Anna Murray-Douglass Academy757 students
- 8East Upper High School753 students
- Enrollment−25.8%
- Teachers−24.3%
- Students per teacher+4.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+53.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory