# SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362574003534`
- **School name**: SARANAC LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: SARANAC LAKE, NY 12983
- **Address**: 79 CANARAS AVE
- **District**: SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3625740`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 44.32498, -74.13596
- **Phone**: (518)891-4221

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 282
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 42.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Growth: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.4% (61 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.7% (46 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 0.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 0.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 98.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 42.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.8% — 49 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,792
- **Federal share**: $2,705
- **State + local share**: $27,087
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 275
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $32,919,854
- **Federal share**: 9.5%
- **State share**: 28.0%
- **Local share**: 62.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $17,932,605

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $61,716
- **Poverty rate**: 16.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.4%
- **Unemployment**: 0.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $700
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 40.3 miles (PLATTSBURGH AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 34.58 miles (FORMER R PRESCOTT SONS MILL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SARANAC LAKE V
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 3.73585 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **LAKE PLACID ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.0 mi away, 56% (this school: 51%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/saranac-lake-middle-school-saranac-lake
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/saranac-lake-middle-school-saranac-lake/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/saranac-lake-middle-school-saranac-lake/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/saranac-lake-middle-school-saranac-lake/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/saranac-lake-middle-school-saranac-lake/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/saranac-lake-middle-school-saranac-lake/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/saranac-lake-middle-school-saranac-lake/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/saranac-lake-middle-school-saranac-lake/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/saranac-lake-middle-school-saranac-lake/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/saranac-lake-middle-school-saranac-lake/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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