LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL

LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intimate intermediate school in LANSING, New York, one of the schools within LANSING CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 355 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 33% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

LANSING CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,118 students. LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. Compared to Tompkins County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Tompkins County runs at roughly 36%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.4%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tompkins County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,024, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Tompkins County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,392 students), LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LANSING HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 65.7%.

LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL has decreased 10%, going from 395 students in 2018 to 355 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 83% to 77%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.