Deckerville Community High School

Set in DECKERVILLE, Michigan, Deckerville Community High School is a cozy 9-12 campus, part of Deckerville Community School District. It educates 219 students across grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 460 students per school, that is 52% below typical.

Within Deckerville Community School District, which oversees 2 schools and 507 students, Deckerville Community High School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Deckerville Community High School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 7% Hispanic. Compared to Sanilac County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Deckerville Community High School reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sanilac County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Deckerville Community High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.5%; this one delivers 38.0%.

Around the school, census data for Sanilac County shows median household earnings sit near $58,863, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Deckerville Community High School is one of 20 public schools in Sanilac County (combined enrollment of about 5,377 students).

Deckerville Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Deckerville Community High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

Deckerville Community High School operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Deckerville Community High School has contracted 20%, going from 274 students in 2018 to 219 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.