SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a small four-year high school in SARANAC LAKE, New York, run under SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 360 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 46% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,036 students. SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (96%) are White. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Franklin County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,151 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Franklin County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,724 students), of which SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SARANAC LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has held roughly steady, going from 355 students in 2018 to 360 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 in 2025.

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