M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a heavily attended 6-8 campus in LAKE KATRINE, New York, M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL hosts 826 students from grades 5 through 8, overseen by KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 56% above that benchmark.

Within KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 10 schools and 5,877 students, M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 31% Hispanic, 14% Black, 13% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL has 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ulster County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 53.4%; actual is 32.3%, a gap of -21.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ulster County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,271 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ulster County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is E R CROSBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 847 (now 826). Over the same period, the White share fell from 52% to 39%. Class-load math has fell: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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