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Enrollment
761
Elementary
DISTRICT 719 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHELPS-CLIFTON SPRINGS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362289003213
MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1510 RT 488, CLIFTON SPRINGS, NY 14432 · (315) 548-6900 · Ontario County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL761 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 10% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
76 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
351 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 98 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 135 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 126 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 22% smaller than its 6th grade class (126).
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within PHELPS-CLIFTON SPRINGS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
43.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
33.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 28.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
33.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 58% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (33.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 761 | 46.1% | 33.6% |
| LOWVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LOWVILLE | 628 | 47.1% | 48.3% |
| BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AMSTERDAM | 879 | 40.7% | 41.3% |
| SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERBURNE | 589 | 48.4% | 39.1% |
| CHENANGO FORKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BINGHAMTON | 605 | 41.5% | 47.4% |
| PERU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PERU | 832 | 54.2% | 42.9% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Ontario County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #1,895 of 2,335 | #8 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #2,036 of 2,342 ▲ 50 | #8 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #1,675 of 2,343 ▲ 188 | #6 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 761 | #189 of 2,585 | #2 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #442 of 2,338 | #7 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.9% | #2,236 of 2,388 | #9 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.1% | #1,515 of 2,534 | #5 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +63.0% | #33 of 606 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
761
+332 (+77%) vs 2020
+37% since 1990-91, when it was 555
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 11.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 761 | 76 | 10.0:1 | 46% (351) |
| 2023-24 | 760 | 81 | 9.4:1 | 47% (355) |
| 2022-23 | 787 | 80.4 | 9.8:1 | 50% (394) |
| 2020-21 | 429 | 38 | 11.3:1 | 47% (202) |
| 2017-18 | 467 | 39 | 12.0:1 | 50% (233) |
| 2015-16 | 441 | 34 | 13.0:1 | 45% (198) |
| 2010-11 | 398 | 34 | 11.7:1 | 37% (149) |
| 2000-01 | 482 | 34 | 14.2:1 | 37% (178) |
| 1990-91 | 555 | 33 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL runs as a large elementary school in CLIFTON SPRINGS, New York. Enrollment stands at 761 students, covering pre-K through 6. The school is 72% bigger than the average for elementary schools in New York.
PHELPS-CLIFTON SPRINGS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools with a combined 1,438 students. MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
The share of White students at MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 93%. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 13%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 10.0:1, based on 76 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. Lunch program data show 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
On the allk12 Grade, MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at D, ahead of 10% of New York public elementary schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 58.0%. It actually posts 33.6%, which is 24.4 points lower and in the bottom 10% of New York schools.
In the wider Ontario County area, median household income comes to about $82,324, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Ontario County's 27 public schools enroll about 14,114 students and include MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Measured in a straight line, MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.3 miles from MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other public schools within ten miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 46.7% proficiency; MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 33.6%.
Federal data place MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the Rural: Fringe locale, which means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment records show 429 in 2020-21 and 761 in 2024-25. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.0:1) than in 2020-21 (11.3:1).
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Ontario County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
112,625
Census ACS
Median income
$82,324
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
27
14,114 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PHELPS-CLIFTON SPRINGS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 677 students
Other schools in CLIFTON SPRINGS
- MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 677 students
Nearby schools
- MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 677
- NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL5.3 mi · 395
- NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL5.5 mi · 586
- ONTARIO-SENECA-YATES-CAYUGA-WAYNE BOCES5.6 mi · 715
- PERKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.6 mi · 266
- NORMAN R KELLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL5.9 mi · 363
Frequently asked questions
About MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 761 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 10.0:1 (76 FTE teachers).
How diverse is MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 93% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PHELPS-CLIFTON SPRINGS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.