Covert High School

In COVERT, Michigan, part of Van Buren County, Covert High School is a high school. It has an enrollment of 101 students in grades 9 through 12. High schools in Michigan average about 460 students, which makes this school 78% below average.

Covert Public Schools is the local district for Covert High School. It runs 3 schools with 324 students.

About 60% of the student body at Covert High School is Hispanic. Other groups include 23% Black, 12% White, and 5% multiracial. By comparison, Van Buren County residents are about 13% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 57, compared with 70 nationally.

Staffing at Covert High School comes to 6.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.8:1. The school's 14.8:1 compares with an average of 21.6:1 for high schools in Michigan. On the income side, 76% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 52% average for public schools in Van Buren County.

In the surrounding county, Van Buren County, the median household earns about $68,114 a year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Covert High School, Van Buren County has 45 public schools.

Covert Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 3 other public schools are within five miles.

In the federal locale system, Covert High School is coded Rural: Distant, for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 6% decline, from 108 to 101. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 21.6:1 to 14.8:1.

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