Davis Junior High School

Davis Junior High School is one of the big middle-grades schools in STERLING HTS, Michigan, one of the schools within Utica Community Schools, with 1,061 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 9. Compared to the state average of about 502 students per school, that is 111% larger than typical.

Utica Community Schools runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 25,574 students. Davis Junior High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Davis Junior High School records that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 8% Black, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Macomb County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at Davis Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Davis Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Macomb County put the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Davis Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Plumbrook Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Davis Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Davis Junior High School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Davis Junior High School's enrollment has edged up 30% since 2018, when it stood at 818 (now 1,061).

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