SKANEATELES MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in SKANEATELES, New York, SKANEATELES MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small intermediate school, run under SKANEATELES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 255 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 52% below the state mean of about 531.

SKANEATELES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,212 students. SKANEATELES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SKANEATELES MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (93%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Onondaga County (around 49%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SKANEATELES MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.1%; this one delivers 80.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Onondaga County shows median household income runs about $76,945, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SKANEATELES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students).

Nearest neighbor: SKANEATELES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SKANEATELES MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 323 students in 2018 compared to 255 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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