LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York, overseen by SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD, with 382 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD, which oversees 8 schools and 5,750 students, LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Saratoga County) logs that median household income runs about $100,787, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Saratoga County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,097 students), LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CAROLINE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 67.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 403 (now 382). Class-load math has fell: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.