Cramer Junior High School

Cramer Junior High School operates as a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in ESSEXVILLE, Michigan, operated by Essexville-Hampton Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 484 students spanning grades 5 through 8.

Cramer Junior High School is one of 4 schools operated by Essexville-Hampton Public Schools, a district that enrolls 1,523 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cramer Junior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 43% of students at Cramer Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Bay County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cramer Junior High School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.3%; Cramer Junior High School posts 33.2%, -14.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bay County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $61,763 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bay County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,525 students), Cramer Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Garber High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cramer Junior High School.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 577 students in 2018 compared to 484 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 90% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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