LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, a sizable middle-grades school in LAGRANGEVILLE, New York, run under ARLINGTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 817 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 54% bigger than that benchmark.

ARLINGTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,644 students. LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 27% Hispanic, 14% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL has 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 39.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dutchess County indicate median household income runs about $99,478, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dutchess County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,885 students), LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 57.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 894 students in 2018 compared to 817 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 59% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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