Allen Creek School, Rochester NY

Original Research by School Decision on Allen Creek School

Allen Creek School is a kindergarten-through-fifth-grade elementary school in Rochester serving a small student body in a mid-sized, fairly affluent suburb. The school enrolls roughly the size typical for an elementary school in its grade band, with even class sizes across all six grade levels.

The student body is predominantly white, reflecting the surrounding residential area of Pittsford. A modest share of students identify as multiracial, and smaller shares are Asian, Hispanic, or Black. The school does not report free-or-reduced-price lunch rates or special education and English learner enrollment counts, so a parent would want to consult directly with the school about those populations if that information is relevant to their family.

On state math and English language arts testing, Allen Creek shows a pattern worth understanding. In grades three and four, students perform solidly, with around four in five students meeting proficiency in math and about seven in ten in English language arts. Performance in grade five tells a different story. Math proficiency in grade five drops sharply to around four in ten students, well below the earlier grades. English language arts proficiency in grade five, at around seven in ten, stays closer to grade-four levels but is visibly the school's weaker area overall. Fifth-grade science proficiency sits at roughly six in ten. This is a notable dip from the performance of younger cohorts, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand what accounts for the change and what support the school offers students who struggle with these subjects as they advance.

Overall across tested subjects and grades, Allen Creek's proficiency index places it in the top quartile among the county's schools. The participation rates in testing are high, running in the mid-to-upper nineties for most grades, suggesting students are regularly assessed.

Housing in the surrounding zip code and Monroe County market is rising. Home values in the area are moderately above the New York State benchmark, and rental costs are typical for the region. The housing market has shown signs of activity, with more homes listed and pending sales compared to a year earlier, though days on market remain short, suggesting a fairly active seller's market. Monthly mortgage costs would be substantial relative to area median income; rent-to-income costs are also significant.

The Pittsford Central School District, which operates Allen Creek, has recently invested in physical infrastructure. Voters approved a major capital improvement project in 2026 to fund safety upgrades, repairs, and infrastructure modernization across all district buildings with no increase to the tax levy. The district faced a significant funding gap from flat state aid against rising costs, but recent budget votes have been passed with modest tax-levy increases to sustain operations.

Allen Creek is a regular public school with no magnet or charter designation. It sits in a community built on residential neighborhoods blended with local shops and historic character. This is a suburban elementary school where grades three and four students tend to meet state expectations in core subjects, but where the fifth-grade transition marks a shift in performance that a prospective family would want to understand more fully.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 379%

School 79% · District 83% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Grade 477%

School 77% · District 81% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

Grade 544%

School 44% · District 72% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 380%

School 80% · District 80%

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

Grade 471%

School 71% · District 78% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

Grade 571%

School 71% · District 78% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

Science

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 69% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 27 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 599%

School 99% · district not reported

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

This schoolPITTSFORD 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income50%Higher-income85%35 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income38%Higher-income85%47 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income0%Higher-income83%83 pp gap