East Lansing High School

East Lansing High School sits in EAST LANSING, Michigan, and is classified as a high school. Enrollment totals 1,231 students across grades 9 through 12. The school is 168% larger than the average for high schools in Michigan.

East Lansing School District runs 8 schools with a combined 3,702 students. East Lansing High School is one of them.

Federal enrollment data show East Lansing High School is 54% White. The remaining shares are 20% Black, 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Ingham County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school's share is lower. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 65, compared with 70 nationally.

There are 56.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 21.6:1. The 21.6:1 average for high schools in Michigan is close to this figure. On the income side, 32% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Ingham County is 49%.

For Ingham County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $65,526, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county has 100 public schools and about 37,914 students.

Of the public schools around it, East Lansing High School is closest to Glencairn School, about 0.8 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Locale data from NCES put East Lansing High School inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).

Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 1,216 to 1,231. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 22.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 21.6:1.

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