Chippewa Hills Middle School

Located at 3102 ARTHUR RD, in REMUS, Michigan, Chippewa Hills Middle School is an average-sized middle school that hosts 503 students (grades 5 through 8), overseen by Chippewa Hills School District.

Chippewa Hills School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,773 students; Chippewa Hills Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chippewa Hills Middle School records that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Mecosta County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Chippewa Hills Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Chippewa Hills Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.6%; this one delivers 38.1%.

Zooming out to the county, Mecosta County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,951, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Mecosta County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,219 students), of which Chippewa Hills Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Chippewa Hills High School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chippewa Hills Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 47.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chippewa Hills Middle School has ticked down 18%, going from 617 students in 2018 to 503 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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