Charles H Roth Junior High School, Henrietta NY

Original Research by School Decision on Charles H Roth Junior High School

Charles H. Roth Junior High School serves seventh through ninth graders in Henrietta, a suburban town south of Rochester that is rapidly growing and increasingly defined by residential development and a large retail corridor. The school is part of the Rush-Henrietta Central School District, which experienced notable budget turbulence in 2024-25 when voters rejected an initial proposal before approving a revised one by a narrow margin, a signal of heightened community oversight worth noting. The district does maintain one of the lowest true-value tax rates in Monroe County, and a 2025-26 property reassessment has produced an estimated tax-rate decrease despite a higher levy.

The enrollment is distributed fairly evenly across the three grades served, with a student population that is economically mixed. About three in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school draws from a diverse background: the student body is roughly half white, with Asian, Black, and Hispanic students each representing meaningful shares, and a smaller population of multiracial students. Data on students with IEPs and English learners was not available.

In state testing, Roth's performance reflects a school in the lower range of academic attainment among Monroe County districts. In seventh-grade math and English language arts, proficiency rates sit just above one in two students, while eighth-grade performance dips below one in two in both subjects. Seventh grade shows stronger engagement and test participation than eighth grade. Eighth-grade science proficiency is particularly weak, with only a small fraction of the fewer than one in six students who took the test reaching proficiency. The school's overall proficiency index across tested subjects and grades places it below the midpoint relative to districts in Monroe County. The sixth-grade assessment results shown in the data are blank because sixth grade is not part of this school's enrollment; the school receives students beginning in seventh grade.

The pattern across the grades suggests either that students at this school encounter increasing academic difficulty as they progress through junior high, or that those taking tests in the upper grades represent a shifting or smaller subset. A parent may want to discuss with the school what support systems are in place for eighth-graders in particular, and what the participation rates reflect about student engagement and coursework pathways.

Henrietta itself is a car-oriented suburb with residential neighborhoods behind commercial retail zones. The town is in the midst of substantial housing growth, with multiple apartment and townhome developments approved or underway and population expected to grow further. The median home value in the school's zip code is in the lower-to-mid range for the Rochester area, with rents also modest, making housing affordability here better than in many neighboring suburbs. The community is anchored by retail along Jefferson Road, the campuses of Rochester Institute of Technology and Monroe Community College, and parks including a fifteen-mile recreational trail. Transit is available through Regional Transit Service and campus shuttles, though the town is fundamentally car-dependent.

No data on course offerings, programs, disciplinary rates, attendance, or staffing was provided for this school. State assessment data was not available for social studies in the current year; an older result from 2009-10 showed strong eighth-grade proficiency but is too old to reflect current practice. With limited program and environment information in the available data, a parent would benefit from visiting the school or its website directly to understand the full picture of what it offers.

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Academic performance

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

New York Regents Exams

2 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
Math	164	79.0%
Science	145	71.0%

Math

Grade 60%

School 0% · District 66% · ▼ 66 pts below district

▼ 45 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 759%

School 59% · District 63% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 52% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 44 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 60%

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

▼ 46 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 751%

School 51% · District 53% · ▼ 2 pts below district

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

Grade 848%

School 48% · District 49% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Science

Grade 813%

School 13% · District 16% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 895%

School 95% · district not reported

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

This schoolRUSH-HENRIETTA 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 6Lower-income25%Higher-income49%24 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income43%Higher-income61%17 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income34%Higher-income63%29 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income42%Higher-income63%21 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income46%Higher-income75%29 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income43%Higher-income59%16 pp gap