Buckley Community Schools

Buckley Community Schools, a sizable K-12 campus in BUCKLEY, Michigan, one of the schools within Buckley Community Schools, educates 488 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 281 students each, so Buckley Community Schools sits 74% above that benchmark.

Buckley Community Schools is a school of Buckley Community Schools, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Buckley Community Schools shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Wexford County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Buckley Community Schools lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Buckley Community Schools tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 46% of students at Buckley Community Schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Wexford County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Buckley Community Schools performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Wexford County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $61,085 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Buckley Community Schools is one of 15 public schools in Wexford County (combined enrollment of about 8,553 students).

The closest other public school is Floyd M Jewett Elem School, roughly 6.9 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Buckley Community Schools at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 44.9%.

Buckley Community Schools operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buckley Community Schools has expanded 18%, going from 413 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.