LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL

LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a high-enrollment middle school in YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, New York, run under LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 1,219 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 130% above the state mean of about 531.

LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,232 students; LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 33% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. Compared to Westchester County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 124 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.4%; this one delivers 59.7%.

Around the school, census data for Westchester County shows the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 74.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKELAND-COPPER BEECH MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 10%, going from 1,347 students in 2018 to 1,219 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 71% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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