Brighton High School

In BRIGHTON, Michigan, Brighton High School is a large high school. It enrolls 1,887 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 310% above the 460-student average for high schools in Michigan.

In Brighton Area Schools, 8 schools enroll a combined 5,796 students.

Roughly 92% of students at Brighton High School are White. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. Livingston County residents are about 94% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Brighton High School scores 15%.

Staffing at Brighton High School comes to 96.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.6:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in Michigan is 21.6:1. Brighton High School counts 9% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 20% average among public schools in Livingston County.

In Livingston County, the median household earns about $103,039 a year, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 3%. Across Livingston County, 48 public schools serve about 24,695 students.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Bridge Alternative High School, is about 1.0 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8.

Locale: Suburb: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 6%, from 1,999 to 1,887. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 19.6:1, from 17.4:1.

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