Clarkston Junior High School

As a high-enrollment high school in CLARKSTON, Michigan, Clarkston Junior High School hosts 1,007 students from grades 7 through 12, part of Clarkston Community School District. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Clarkston Junior High School sits 119% above that benchmark.

Clarkston Community School District comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 6,670 students; Clarkston Junior High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Clarkston Junior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.8:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clarkston Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.8%, the actual is 52.1%, a residual of -6.7 points.

Across the wider county, Oakland County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,760, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Clarkston Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Clarkston Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clarkston Junior High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Clarkston Junior High School's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 1,197 (now 1,007). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 87% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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