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Enrollment
484
Middle
DISTRICT 381 · STATE 502
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ESSEXVILLE-HAMPTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 261353005028
Cramer Junior High School
313 PINE ST, ESSEXVILLE, MI 48732 · (989) 894-9740 · Bay County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL484 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 11% of Michigan public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
207 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 119 | 25% |
| Grade 6 | 138 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 112 | 23% |
| Grade 8 | 115 | 24% |
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Cramer Junior High School→Garber High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Essexville-Hampton Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
33.3%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
24.4%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
33.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.3%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cramer Junior High School
Cramer Junior High School's state test result (33.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cramer Junior High School this school | 484 | 42.8% | 33.2% |
| Clare Middle School CLARE | 474 | 41.6% | 30.5% |
| Charlotte Middle School CHARLOTTE | 406 | 43.6% | 36.1% |
| Whitehall Middle School WHITEHALL | 424 | 40.1% | 44.3% |
| Thomas Simpson Middle School FLAT ROCK | 417 | 44.8% | 26.6% |
| Rolland Warner Campus 67 LAPEER | 610 | 43.4% | 42.8% |
Matched among Michigan middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cramer Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #319 of 397 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #318 of 380 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #298 of 377 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 484 | #253 of 491 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #209 of 436 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.0% | #282 of 437 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.8% | #266 of 477 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.1% | #134 of 339 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
484
-15 (-3%) vs 2020
+11% since 1990-91, when it was 437
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 20.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 484 | 27.9 | 17.4:1 | 43% (207) |
| 2023-24 | 456 | 28.3 | 16.1:1 | 43% (195) |
| 2022-23 | 456 | 29.5 | 15.4:1 | 39% (179) |
| 2020-21 | 499 | 24 | 20.8:1 | 35% (177) |
| 2017-18 | 577 | 26.8 | 21.6:1 | 38% (218) |
| 2015-16 | 585 | 27 | 21.7:1 | 32% (186) |
| 2010-11 | 451 | 24 | 18.8:1 | 34% (152) |
| 2000-01 | 475 | 27 | 17.6:1 | 19% (90) |
| 1990-91 | 437 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cramer Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (577 to 484); teachers up 4% (26.8 to 27.9).
About Cramer Junior High School
Cramer Junior High School is a mid-sized middle school in ESSEXVILLE, Michigan, one of the schools in Essexville-Hampton Public Schools. In all, 484 students attend the school in grades 5 through 8.
District-wide, Essexville-Hampton Public Schools has 4 schools and 1,523 students.
Roughly 86% of students at Cramer Junior High School are White. Other groups include 7% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Cramer Junior High School scores 25%.
Cramer Junior High School reported 27.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 17.4:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Michigan is similar, at 17.5:1. There are 207 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 43% of enrollment. That rate is below the 55% average among public schools in Bay County.
Among Michigan public middle schools, Cramer Junior High School outscored 11%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Cramer Junior High School is among the bottom 10% of schools in Michigan. Predicted: 47.3%. Actual: 33.2%.
In Bay County, the median household earns about $61,763 a year, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Bay County, 34 public schools serve about 12,525 students.
Among nearby public schools, Garber High School is closest at about 0.1 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.
Federal data place Cramer Junior High School in the Suburb: Small locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 3%, from 499 to 484. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 17.4:1, from 20.8:1.
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Bay County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
103,008
Census ACS
Median income
$61,763
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
12,525 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Essexville-Hampton Public Schools
- Garber High SchoolHigh · 489 students
- Verellen Elementary SchoolElementary · 314 students
- WR Bush Elementary SchoolElementary · 236 students
Other schools in ESSEXVILLE
- Garber High SchoolHigh · 489 students
- Verellen Elementary SchoolElementary · 314 students
- WR Bush Elementary SchoolElementary · 236 students
- BayArenac Community High SchoolHigh · 180 students
- LLCBay CampusCombined · 44 students
- Detention CenterCombined · 11 students
Nearby schools
- Garber High School0.1 mi · 489
- BayArenac Community High School0.4 mi · 180
- WR Bush Elementary School0.7 mi · 236
- LLCBay Campus1.0 mi · 44
- Bay City Eastern High School1.5 mi · 137
- Verellen Elementary School1.6 mi · 314
Frequently asked questions
About Cramer Junior High SchoolHow many students attend Cramer Junior High School?
Cramer Junior High School enrolls approximately 484 students in grades 05-08.
Is Cramer Junior High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cramer Junior High School is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
How many teachers does Cramer Junior High School have?
Cramer Junior High School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Cramer Junior High School?
Student demographics at Cramer Junior High School are roughly 86% White, 7% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Cramer Junior High School?
Cramer Junior High School is overseen by Essexville-Hampton Public Schools in Bay County.
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