LONG LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL

Set in LONG LAKE, New York, LONG LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL is an one-room-style K-12 campus, part of LONG LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 59 students across grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 89% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 544 students.

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

On demographics, LONG LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Hamilton County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, LONG LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 3.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.7:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, LONG LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.5%; this one delivers 66.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hamilton County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $68,835 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LONG LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL is one of 4 public schools in Hamilton County (combined enrollment of about 380 students).

NEWCOMB CENTRAL SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 13.5 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, LONG LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 67 students in 2018 compared to 59 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 100% to 92% across the same window.

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