INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL

INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL is one of the micro-enrollment multi-level schools in INDIAN LAKE, New York, run under INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 126 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 77% smaller than the state mean of about 544.

INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL sits inside INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Other groups include 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL logs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.3:1. The state averages around 8.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 2% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hamilton County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 74.1%; actual is 47.4%, a gap of -26.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Hamilton County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,835 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hamilton County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 380 students), INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NEWCOMB CENTRAL SCHOOL, around 14.4 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.1%.

INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at INDIAN LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL has rose 3%, going from 122 students in 2018 to 126 in 2025.

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