The top reported proficiency rate is 100% in Social studies. The lowest is 42% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Florence Brasser School
Florence Brasser School is a kindergarten through fifth grade elementary school in the Gates Chili Central School District, situated in the Rochester zip code of 14624 on Coldwater Road. Though it carries a Rochester mailing address, it sits within the Gates Chili district rather than the Rochester City School District, a distinction that matters for enrollment and school assignment purposes.
The school serves a moderately sized elementary population across its six grade levels. About two in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that reflects a mix of economic circumstances but is not at the high end of what schools in Monroe County see. The student body is majority white, with meaningful shares of Black, Hispanic, multiracial, and Asian students. Data on students with IEPs and English learners was not available in this profile.
On the New York State Testing Program, the picture across grades three through five is uneven in ways worth understanding clearly. In math, fourth grade stands out as a genuine strength, with a large majority of students reaching proficiency. Fifth grade math is solid as well, with roughly half to slightly more reaching that bar. Third grade math sits lower, with less than half proficient, a gap a parent may want to ask the school about directly. In ELA, the same grade-level pattern appears but at lower levels overall: fourth grade is the high point, with about three in five students proficient, while third grade ELA is the weakest result in the data, with fewer than a third reaching proficiency. Fifth grade ELA lands in the middle. Science, tested only at fifth grade, shows below-half proficiency. Taken together, the school's overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint among districts in Monroe County, a reasonable position in a county with wide variation. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether results are improving, flat, or declining.
Participation in testing is consistently strong across grades, which means the reported results reflect nearly the full student body rather than a selected subset.
Because this is an elementary school, there is no graduation rate and no AP or career-pathway data to discuss. Those outcomes belong to Gates Chili Middle School and Gates Chili High School, which students would feed into after fifth grade.
On the facilities side, the district has been actively investing in its buildings. Voters approved a capital project in early 2022 with no tax increase, covering upgrades, safety improvements, and accessibility work at Florence Brasser among other district buildings, with construction running into 2025. A second capital project was approved in early 2025, again with no tax impact, focused on repairing aging infrastructure including roofing, HVAC, flooring, cafeteria renovations, and library updates across every building. Construction on that second effort is expected to run from spring 2026 through the latter part of the decade. Both investments are publicly reported by the district and represent a sustained commitment to the physical condition of the schools.
The housing market surrounding the school reflects the broader Monroe County picture, where publicly reported data shows home values that are meaningfully below the state benchmark and also below the national benchmark, making this one of the more accessible markets in New York. Values have been rising year over year, and the county market as a whole moves quickly, with homes typically pending in well under a month. Rents in the area consume a modest share of income by national standards. For families weighing whether to buy near this school, the Gates Chili area of Rochester's west side offers entry-level prices relative to much of the state, though competition for homes has been increasing.
Rochester itself is a city of distinct residential neighborhoods built around Olmsted-designed parks, a downtown that has been adding residents and undergoing adaptive reuse of older buildings, and an economy anchored by healthcare, higher education, and advanced manufacturing. Major employers including the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester Regional Health, Rochester Institute of Technology, and several large regional names provide the employment base for many families in the district's catchment area.
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