Alma Senior High School

Alma Senior High School is a mid-sized high school in ALMA, Michigan, one of the schools in Alma Public Schools. The school enrolls 552 students in grades 9 through 12.

Alma Senior High School is part of a district of 5 schools: Alma Public Schools, with 1,815 students.

Roughly 85% of students at Alma Senior High School are White. Other groups include 12% Hispanic. Gratiot County residents are about 86% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Alma Senior High School scores 27%.

With 34.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.9:1. High schools in Michigan average 21.6:1, 5.7 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 66% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Gratiot County is close, at 64%.

In Gratiot County, home to about 41,385 people, the median household earns about $63,556 a year, roughly 19% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Gratiot County number 24, with about 5,245 students.

GIRESD Center Programs sits less than a tenth of a mile from Alma Senior High School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Its NCES locale code is Town: Distant: the school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.

A 15% decline took enrollment from 652 in 2020-21 to 552 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (15.9:1) than in 2020-21 (18.1:1).

Alma Senior High School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.