GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 1247 LAKES RD, in MONROE, New York, GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intimate middle school that teaches 226 students (grades 4 through 8), one of the schools within GREENWOOD LAKE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 57% below that benchmark.

Within GREENWOOD LAKE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 417 students, GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 27% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Orange County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Orange County runs 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), of which GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 3.6 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 59.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 292 students in 2018 compared to 226 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 70% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 today.

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