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Boyne City Middle School

1025 BOYNE AVE, BOYNE CITY, MI 49712 · (231) 439-8200 · Charlevoix County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE32-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL378 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 26% of Michigan public middle schools
  • C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
  • C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
  • ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.

Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public middle schools

Enrollment
378
Middle
DISTRICT 305 · STATE 502
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 27.5:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
134 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 55%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.

Enrollment by grade, 2024-25

GradeStudentsShare
Grade 57420%
Grade 69425%
Grade 710728%
Grade 810327%
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 56% · US 70%
White
34190%
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 63% · US 43%
Hispanic
113%
DISTRICT 2% · STATE 9% · US 30%
Black
21%
DISTRICT 0% · STATE 18% · US 15%
Asian
10%
DISTRICT 1% · STATE 4% · US 6%
Two+
185%
DISTRICT 6% · STATE 5% · US 5%
Native American
51%
DISTRICT 1% · STATE 1% · US 1%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Male
21356%
Female
16544%

School pathway

Feeds from
Boyne City Elementary SchoolKG–04
Based on grade levels within Boyne City Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.

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Test scores

M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + Proficient
English Language Arts
39.7%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
31.6%
MI avg 44.8%

What 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.

Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.6%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.5pp
below demographic expectation

What 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%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

Schools most like Boyne City Middle School

Boyne City Middle School's state test result (39.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.

SchoolStudentsLow-incomeProficient
Boyne City Middle School this school37835.4%39.1%
Bullock Creek Middle School
MIDLAND
34833.3%50.3%
Yale Junior High School
YALE
42537.2%49.1%
Hopkins Middle School
HOPKINS
32134.3%42.2%
Gladstone Area Middle School
GLADSTONE
34632.1%41.2%
Negaunee Middle School
NEGAUNEE
46433.6%54.5%
Matched among Michigan middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.

Where Boyne City Middle School ranks

Among middle schools
MeasureThis schoolIn Michigan
State test proficiency
ranked highest first
39.1%#237 of 397
Math proficiency
ranked highest first
31.6%#231 of 380
Reading proficiency
ranked highest first
39.7%#216 of 377
Enrollment
ranked largest first
378#329 of 491
Students per teacher
ranked fewest first
17.6:1#231 of 436
Diversity index
ranked most diverse first
18.3%#353 of 437
Free and reduced lunch
ranked highest share first
35.4%#315 of 477
Enrollment change since 2017-18
ranked steepest decline first
-12.3%#181 of 339
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.

4-year change

SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25
Enrollment
378
-17 (-4%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 410
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 17.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Enrollment and staffing by year

School yearStudentsTeachers (FTE)Students per teacherFree and reduced lunch
2024-2537821.417.6:135% (134)
2023-2439522.517.6:146% (183)
2022-2338821.118.4:149% (192)
2020-213952217.9:141% (163)
2017-1843122.219.4:148% (207)
2015-164142020.7:135% (146)
2010-113902317.0:160% (234)
2000-014022615.5:128% (114)
1990-91410N/AN/AN/A
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Boyne City Middle School.

Since 2017-18: students down 12% (431 to 378); teachers down 4% (22.2 to 21.4).

About Boyne City Middle School

Boyne City Middle School is a low-enrollment middle school for students in BOYNE CITY, Michigan. It has an enrollment of 378 students in grades 5 through 8. Middle schools in Michigan average about 502 students, which makes this school 25% below average.

Boyne City Middle School is part of Boyne City Public Schools, where 4 schools serve 1,218 students.

At Boyne City Middle School, 90% of students are White. The school is also 5% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. Census estimates put Charlevoix County at about 93% White, close to the school's figure. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 18%.

Boyne City Middle School has 21.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 17.6:1. The ratio is within a point of the 17.5:1 average for middle schools in Michigan. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 35%. The 44% average for public schools in Charlevoix County is 9 points higher.

Boyne City Middle School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 26% of Michigan public middle schools.

On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Boyne City Middle School is 11.5 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 39.1% actual, 50.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Michigan.

In the wider Charlevoix County area, the median household earns about $76,531 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Across Charlevoix County, 14 public schools serve about 3,256 students.

A public school about 0.1 miles away, Boyne City High School, is the closest to Boyne City Middle School. The count of other public schools within five miles is 5. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Boyne City Middle School is 5th of 5 on proficiency.

Boyne City Middle School has an NCES locale of Town: Distant.

Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 4%, from 395 to 378.

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Charlevoix County at a glance

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Population
26,108
Census ACS
Median income
$76,531
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
14
3,256 students

Quick facts

School name
Boyne City Middle School
District
Boyne City Public Schools
Address
1025 BOYNE AVE, BOYNE CITY, MI 49712
Phone
(231) 439-8200
County
Charlevoix County
Level
Middle
Grade range
05–08
Total enrollment
378
Teachers (FTE)
21
Student–teacher ratio
17.6:1
Free and reduced lunch
134 (35%)
Locale
32-Town: Distant
NCES ID
260650004254
Charter school
No
Virtual school
No

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Frequently asked questions

About Boyne City Middle School
How large is Boyne City Middle School?
Boyne City Middle School enrolls approximately 378 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Boyne City Middle School serve?
Boyne City Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Boyne City Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Boyne City Middle School is approximately 17.6:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Boyne City Middle School?
At Boyne City Middle School, the student body is approximately 90% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Boyne City Middle School public or private?
Boyne City Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Boyne City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.
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