Enrollment
282
Middle
DISTRICT 259 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362574003534
SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
79 CANARAS AVE, SARANAC LAKE, NY 12983 · (518) 891-4221 · Franklin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL282 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of New York public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
120 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 85 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 89 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 108 | 38% |
Student demographics
4%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 5% · 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
SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL→SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SARANAC LAKE 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
56.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
63.2%
NY avg 57.4% . -36.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 37 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 63.2% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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 SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (59.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 282 | 42.6% | 59.7% |
| NORTHEASTERN CLINTON MIDDLE SCHOOL CHAMPLAIN | 287 | 42.5% | 52.9% |
| J M MCKENNEY MIDDLE SCHOOL CANTON | 301 | 43.2% | 63.1% |
| ADIRONDACK MIDDLE SCHOOL BOONVILLE | 243 | 44.9% | 52.9% |
| MARCUS WHITMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL RUSHVILLE | 245 | 40.8% | 50.0% |
| HOLLAND PATENT MIDDLE SCHOOL HOLLAND PATENT | 261 | 38.7% | 53.3% |
Matched among New York middle 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 SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.7% | #265 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #338 of 768 ▼ 297 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #257 of 768 ▲ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 282 | #590 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #250 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.2% | #684 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.6% | #507 of 773 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.4% | #520 of 524 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
282
-17 (-6%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 404
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 282 | 28.9 | 9.8:1 | 43% (120) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 30 | 9.2:1 | 42% (116) |
| 2022-23 | 275 | 31.8 | 8.7:1 | 41% (114) |
| 2020-21 | 299 | 29 | 10.3:1 | 43% (128) |
| 2017-18 | 283 | 28 | 10.1:1 | 42% (120) |
| 2015-16 | 271 | 26 | 10.4:1 | 37% (101) |
| 2010-11 | 314 | 33 | 9.5:1 | 27% (85) |
| 2000-01 | 475 | 36 | 13.2:1 | 21% (102) |
| 1990-91 | 404 | 34 | 11.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
The public middle-grades school SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in SARANAC LAKE, New York. The school's 282 students are in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 47% lower than the average for middle schools in New York, which is about 531.
SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has a total of 4 schools and 1,036 students, SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
Most students at SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL are White: 98% of enrollment. For comparison, the population of Franklin County is roughly 84% White. The chance that two students picked at random at SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 4%.
The count of teachers at SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 28.9 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 9.8:1. Across middle schools in New York, the average ratio is about 10.3:1. Around 43% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Franklin County, the average is 52%.
Measured against New York public middle schools, SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is within a point of the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 59.7% actual, 59.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
Franklin County has these Census figures: median household income is about $65,151, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 24%, and roughly 14% of residents are in poverty. SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is among the 21 public schools in Franklin County.
The nearest other public school, PETROVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, 2 other public schools sit within five miles of SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL. By average proficiency, SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th among 9 schools close by.
Locale: Town: Remote. In NCES terms, the school is in a town far from an urbanized area.
Enrollment was 299 in 2020-21 and 282 in 2024-25, a decrease of 17 students.
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Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
46,696
Census ACS
Median income
$65,151
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
6,724 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 360 students
- PETROVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 291 students
- BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOLElementary · 103 students
Other schools in SARANAC LAKE
- SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 360 students
- PETROVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 291 students
- BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOLElementary · 103 students
Nearby schools
- PETROVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 291
- SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 360
- BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL5.8 mi · 103
- LAKE PLACID ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.0 mi · 228
- LAKE PLACID JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL8.0 mi · 304
- L P QUINN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL16.7 mi · 336
Frequently asked questions
About SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 282 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.8:1 students per teacher at SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 98% White, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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