DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in BATH, New York, DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack middle school, operated by BATH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 509 students across grades 4 through 8.

BATH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,395 students; DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Steuben County as a whole.

On the resource side, DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 60% of students at DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Steuben County (around 51%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.8%; this one delivers 40.8%.

In the broader community, Steuben County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,887 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Steuben County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,701 students), of which DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

HAVERLING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 565 (now 509). Class-load math has tightened: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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