MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL

MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL, a mid-tier secondary school in CLIFTON SPRINGS, New York, operated by PHELPS-CLIFTON SPRINGS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, educates 677 students, covering grades 7 through 12.

Across the 2 schools in PHELPS-CLIFTON SPRINGS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,438 students total), MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Ontario County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.5%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of -10.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Ontario County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,324 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is one of 27 public schools in Ontario County (combined enrollment of about 14,114 students).

The closest other public school is MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MIDLAKES MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 44.1%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 29%: 526 students in 2018 compared to 677 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 5% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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