Bemis Junior High School

Set in STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan, Bemis Junior High School is a reasonably sized junior high, operated by Utica Community Schools. It educates 742 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Bemis Junior High School sits 48% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 37 schools in Utica Community Schools (25,574 students total), Bemis Junior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Bemis Junior High School records that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest looks like 9% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Bemis Junior High School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bemis Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 48.4%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Macomb County indicate median household income runs about $77,837, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Bemis Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Browning Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bemis Junior High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bemis Junior High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bemis Junior High School has decreased 14%, going from 864 students in 2018 to 742 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 84% to 75% over that span.

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