DeltonKellogg Middle School
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Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About DeltonKellogg Middle School
DeltonKellogg Middle School operates as a close-knit intermediate school in DELTON, Michigan, operated by Delton Kellogg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 293 students spanning grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so DeltonKellogg Middle School sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.
DeltonKellogg Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by Delton Kellogg Schools, a district that serves 1,101 students overall.
On the student-mix side, DeltonKellogg Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Barry County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, DeltonKellogg Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -10.2 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for Barry County shows median household income runs about $77,500, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Barry County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,041 students), DeltonKellogg Middle School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Delton Kellogg Elem School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around DeltonKellogg Middle School.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DeltonKellogg Middle School has ticked down 31%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 293 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.
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- Delton Kellogg Elem SchoolElementary · 405 students
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- DeltonKellogg High School0.2 mi · 332
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