Summary:
The Lake Placid Junior-Senior High School is the sole high school serving the Lake Placid Central School District in New York. The school has a student population of 311 and generally performs above the state average on academic assessments, though it faces challenges with math proficiency and chronic absenteeism.
Lake Placid Junior-Senior High School has a statewide ranking that has fluctuated between 272 and 408 out of over 1,200 high schools in New York. The school's performance on state assessments is strong, with proficiency rates ranging from 29.03% to 87.5% across various subjects and grade levels. However, the school struggles with math proficiency, particularly in 8th-grade math, where the proficiency rate is only 29.03% compared to the state average of 46.74%. The school's four-year graduation rate of 84.3% is slightly below the state average, and its 4.5% dropout rate is higher than the state average.
The school district's spending per student is $37,018, which is significantly higher than the state average, and the school has a low student-teacher ratio of 7.1. These resources suggest opportunities to further improve the school's effectiveness and student success, particularly in addressing the high chronic absenteeism rate of 31.5%, which may be impacting the school's academic performance and graduation rates.
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