Enrollment
360
High
DISTRICT 259 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362574003535
SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
79 CANARAS AVE, SARANAC LAKE, NY 12983 · (518) 891-4450 · Franklin County
GRADES 09–12HIGH33-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL360 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New York public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
130 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 82 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 82 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 106 | 29% |
| Grade 12 | 88 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 1% |
Student demographics
5%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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
88.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
85.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.0% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 89.0% | 74.0% |
% 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
76.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (76.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 360 | 36.1% | 76.0% |
| HOLLAND PATENT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL HOLLAND PATENT | 391 | 36.8% | 65.2% |
| LOWVILLE HIGH SCHOOL LOWVILLE | 385 | 37.1% | 76.0% |
| PAVILION JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PAVILION | 331 | 36.9% | 61.4% |
| GALWAY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL GALWAY | 419 | 36.0% | 65.0% |
| WEEDSPORT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WEEDSPORT | 374 | 34.8% | 67.3% |
Matched among New York high 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 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #242 of 1,135 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #93 of 1,109 ▲ 221 | #1 of 6 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #250 of 1,135 ▲ 50 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 360 | #809 of 1,216 | #4 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.1:1 | #151 of 1,058 | #2 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.0% | #1,052 of 1,070 | #4 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.1% | #917 of 1,167 | #6 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.4% | #309 of 339 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high 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
360
+8 (+2%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 448
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 360 | 39.8 | 9.1:1 | 36% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 374 | 33.7 | 11.1:1 | 40% (150) |
| 2022-23 | 385 | 37.1 | 10.4:1 | 42% (162) |
| 2020-21 | 352 | 33 | 10.7:1 | 38% (132) |
| 2017-18 | 355 | 32.8 | 10.8:1 | 37% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 414 | 32 | 12.9:1 | 28% (117) |
| 2010-11 | 510 | 45 | 11.3:1 | 22% (114) |
| 2000-01 | 564 | 43 | 13.1:1 | 14% (77) |
| 1990-91 | 448 | 38 | 11.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public high school run by SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in SARANAC LAKE, New York. It enrolls 360 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 9 through 12. It has 46% fewer students than the average for high schools in New York (about 668).
SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a school in SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The district has 4 schools and 1,036 students.
The share of White students at SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 96%. The county population is about 84% White. The diversity index for SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 5%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.1:1, with 39.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 36% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Franklin County, the average eligibility rate is 52%.
SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 76% of New York public high schools.
A school with SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 61.7%. SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL scores 76.0%, 14.3 points above that line.
Franklin County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $65,151, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 14% of people live in poverty. There are 21 public schools in the county, enrolling about 6,724, SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL among them.
SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits about 0.4 miles from SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. There are 2 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Remote: in a town far from an urbanized area.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 352 in 2020-21 and 360 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (9.1:1) than in 2020-21 (10.7:1).
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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
- PETROVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 291 students
- SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 282 students
- BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOLElementary · 103 students
Other schools in SARANAC LAKE
- PETROVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 291 students
- SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 282 students
- BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOLElementary · 103 students
Nearby schools
- SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 282
- PETROVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 291
- BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL5.8 mi · 103
- LAKE PLACID ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.4 mi · 228
- LAKE PLACID JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL8.5 mi · 304
- L P QUINN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL16.4 mi · 336
Frequently asked questions
About SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 360 students in grades 09-12.
Is SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.1:1.
What is the student diversity at SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 96% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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