Beach Middle School

Beach Middle School operates as a mid-tier junior high in CHELSEA, Michigan, run under Chelsea School District. Current enrollment sits at 525 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Chelsea School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,236 students; Beach Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Beach Middle School logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.7:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Washtenaw County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Beach Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.6%, the actual is 70.1%, a residual of +8.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Washtenaw County shows median household income runs about $89,180, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Beach Middle School is one of 104 public schools in Washtenaw County (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students).

Nearest neighbor: Chelsea High School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beach Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 58.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 579 students in 2018 compared to 525 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.