SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL

SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL, a low-enrollment middle-grades school in TURIN, New York, run under SOUTH LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 311 students, covering grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 41% leaner than typical.

SOUTH LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,035 students. SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (94%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 59% of students at SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Lewis County's rate of about 45%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.5%; this one delivers 55.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Lewis County put the typical household earns roughly $68,182 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Lewis County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,082 students), of which SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTH LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTH LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL has rose 15%, going from 270 students in 2018 to 311 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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