East Middle School

East Middle School is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle-grades schools in FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan, operated by Farmington Public School District, with 555 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Farmington Public School District runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 8,983 students. East Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, East Middle School records that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 35% Black, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, East Middle School records 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, East Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 39.4%, a residual of -11.1 points.

Around the school, Oakland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), East Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: JA Lanigan Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts East Middle School at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 44.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. East Middle School's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 583 (now 555). Black enrollment moved from 30% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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