Belding Middle School

Belding Middle School is one of the intimate intermediate schools in BELDING, Michigan, one of the schools within Belding Area School District, with 363 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Belding Middle School sits 28% smaller than that benchmark.

Belding Area School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,637 students. Belding Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Belding Middle School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Belding Middle School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ionia County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Belding Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ionia County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $75,611 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ionia County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,506 students), Belding Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Belding High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Belding Middle School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Belding Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 408 students in 2018 compared to 363 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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