Boyne City Middle School
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Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Boyne City Middle School
Set in BOYNE CITY, Michigan, Boyne City Middle School is a small intermediate school, part of Boyne City Public Schools. It teaches 378 students across grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 502 students per school, that is 25% below typical.
Boyne City Public Schools runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,218 students. Boyne City Middle School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Boyne City Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). The remainder is composed of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Charlevoix County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, Boyne City Middle School logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 35% of students at Boyne City Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Charlevoix County's rate of about 44%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Boyne City Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.6%; this one delivers 39.1%.
Around the school, census data for Charlevoix County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,531 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Charlevoix County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,256 students), of which Boyne City Middle School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Boyne City High School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Boyne City Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.5%.
Boyne City Middle School operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Boyne City Middle School has shrank 12%, going from 431 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.
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