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Beaverton JuniorSenior High School
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M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Beaverton JuniorSenior High School
Beaverton JuniorSenior High School is a mid-tier four-year high school in BEAVERTON, Michigan, part of Beaverton Schools. The school serves 463 students in grades 6 through 12.
Beaverton JuniorSenior High School is one of 2 schools operated by Beaverton Schools, a district that educates 874 students overall.
On demographics, Beaverton JuniorSenior High School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Gladwin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, Beaverton JuniorSenior High School lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.2:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Beaverton JuniorSenior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.0%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -0.8 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Gladwin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $55,349 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Gladwin County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,529 students), Beaverton JuniorSenior High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Beaverton Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Beaverton JuniorSenior High School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.4%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Beaverton JuniorSenior High School's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 507 (now 463). Class-load math has rose: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.
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Gladwin County at a glance
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Related schools
- Beaverton Elementary SchoolElementary · 411 students
- Beaverton Elementary School0.2 mi · 411
- Gladwin Junior High School7.6 mi · 359
- Gladwin Community Alternative HS7.7 mi · 23
- Gladwin Elementary School7.9 mi · 401
- Gladwin Intermediate School7.9 mi · 386
- Gladwin High School8.2 mi · 486