Beal City High School

Beal City High School is a four-year high school of intimate scale in MOUNT PLEASANT, Michigan, overseen by Beal City Public Schools, enrolling 376 students in grades 6 through 12.

Beal City Public Schools runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 641 students. Beal City High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Beal City High School reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 3% Native American, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Beal City High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 22% of students at Beal City High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Isabella County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Beal City High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.7%; actual is 44.0%, a gap of -12.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Isabella County put the typical household earns roughly $55,237 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Isabella County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,493 students), Beal City High School is one campus in the mix.

Beal City Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beal City High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 378 students in 2018 compared to 376 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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