Baseline Middle School

Baseline Middle School is a tight-knit middle school in SOUTH HAVEN, Michigan, overseen by South Haven Public Schools. The school hosts 377 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 25% leaner than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Within South Haven Public Schools, which oversees 6 schools and 1,815 students, Baseline Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Baseline Middle School reports that 61% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 10% Black. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Allegan County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, Baseline Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of -8.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Allegan County shows median household income runs about $83,283, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Allegan County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,174 students), Baseline Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: North Shore Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Baseline Middle School. On composite proficiency, Baseline Middle School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 463 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 15% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.