Davidson Middle School

Set in SOUTHGATE, Michigan, Davidson Middle School is a moderately sized middle-grades school, run under Southgate Community School District. It hosts 663 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 32% bigger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Southgate Community School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,857 students. Davidson Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Davidson Middle School reports that White students make up the majority at 64%; the rest looks like 17% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Davidson Middle School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Davidson Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 34.4%, a residual of -4.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Wayne County put median household income runs about $60,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Davidson Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Asher School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Davidson Middle School.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Davidson Middle School has edged down 17%, going from 802 students in 2018 to 663 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 78% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 today.

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