Fairport Senior High School, Fairport NY

Original Research by School Decision on Fairport Senior High School

Fairport Senior High School is a regular public high school serving grades ten through twelve in Fairport, an outer-ring suburb of Rochester located roughly nine to ten miles east of the city along the Erie Canal. The school enrolls roughly thirteen hundred students, drawn primarily from the Town of Perinton and Village of Fairport; about four-fifths are white, with smaller shares identifying as Hispanic, Black, Asian, or multiracial. About a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

The school sits on a suburban campus, physically separated from the downtown village core where civic life concentrates around the canal. This reflects the broader district pattern: the Fairport Central School District runs eight schools across the area as distinct buildings, from elementary through a dedicated ninth-grade center. That structure is changing. Beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, the district is consolidating ninth grade from the standalone Minerva DeLand building into Fairport High School, making FHS a full 9-12 school. This is intended to broaden ninth graders' access to accelerated and elective programming and to align curriculum more tightly across the four years. Coinciding with that consolidation, the district is implementing a staggered daily schedule shift taking effect fall 2026, with high and middle school students starting later, rooted in sleep and adolescent mental-health research. Both changes reshape logistics and daily rhythm for families.

State testing data are not available for this school. The school serves grades ten through twelve, and New York's state assessment system reports results only for grade eight. The state did not report proficiency metrics for the school in the available data, so academic proficiency cannot be compared to other schools in Monroe County on that measure. A parent evaluating this school will want to ask the district directly about high school performance data, course rigor, AP offerings, dual-credit pathways, or other indicators of academic trajectory that are not present in this summary.

The broader housing context is a tight, high-demand market. Homes in the Fairport zip code have sold at a median price in the mid-range for Monroe County, with sale velocity quick and prices trending upward year over year. Rents have also risen modestly. Fairport itself is in the midst of active village-led redevelopment, pursuing state Downtown Revitalization Initiative funding with a 2025 call for projects that could add mixed-use housing or public space improvements. The village's comprehensive plan calls for medium-density housing such as townhouses and apartments around Main Street and downtown, though about two-thirds of existing residences remain owner-occupied and zoning changes have remained contested.

At the district level, voters approved a substantial capital improvement project in September 2025, authorizing modernization of classrooms, HVAC systems, and safety upgrades across all K-8 buildings. The project was structured to add no additional tax levy by using capital reserves and state building aid, a facilities investment that affects the school environment broadly if not the high school campus directly.

The school environment itself is not fully documented in the available data. Course access, staffing, attendance, and discipline metrics were not reported. A parent seeking to understand the school's daily culture, class sizes, advanced placement breadth, career or technical pathways, or supports for students with learning differences or English learners should reach out to the school or district directly, as those specifics do not appear here.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

95.0%Cohort of 485 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,253 schools plotted. 14 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Advanced Placement & IB

20 subjects offered · 2023-24

Each card is one AP or IB subject. The headline number is the share of students scoring 3 or higher on the exam — the threshold for college credit at most universities. The bar below each rate shows the underlying distribution across performance levels.

Score:12· no credit345· extremely well qualified

Math and Computer Science

Calculus AB

52 tested

94.2%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

26 tested

92.3%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

18 tested

83.3%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

44 tested · Grade 10

95.5%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

36 tested

94.4%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

9 tested

55.6%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

17 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

18 tested

94.4%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

15 tested

93.3%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

131 tested

91.6%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

French Language and Culture

10 tested

60.0%

scored 3 or higher

German Language and Culture

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

43 tested

90.7%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

10 tested

90.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

142 tested

63.4%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

101 tested · Grade 10

94.1%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

World History

92 tested · Grade 10

98.9%

scored 3 or higher

New York Regents Exams

4 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Social Studies	422	89.0%
Ela	414	96.0%
Science	305	79.0%
Math	303	92.0%

Math

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 78% · ▼ 78 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 57% · ▼ 57 pts below district

▼ 48 pts below state median · ▼ 32 pts below county median

Science

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 64% · ▼ 64 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

This schoolFAIRPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.