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Berkley High School
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Berkley High School
As a big high school in BERKLEY, Michigan, Berkley High School caters to 1,200 students from grades 7 through 12, one of the schools within Berkley School District. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Berkley High School sits 161% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 7 schools in Berkley School District (3,894 students total), Berkley High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Berkley High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Oakland County as a whole.
On the resource side, The school reports having 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Oakland County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Oakland County) logs that median household income runs about $97,760, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Berkley High School is one campus in the mix.
Rogers Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Berkley High School operates from a bedroom-community location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 1,384 students in 2018 compared to 1,200 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.
On allk12, the feed for Berkley High School typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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