EF Rittmueller Middle School

EF Rittmueller Middle School is a 6-8 campus of small scale in FRANKENMUTH, Michigan, one of the schools within Frankenmuth School District, educateing 368 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

EF Rittmueller Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Frankenmuth School District, a district that works with 1,351 students overall.

On the student-mix side, EF Rittmueller Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, EF Rittmueller Middle School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.9:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Saginaw County (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, EF Rittmueller Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 57.6%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Saginaw County shows median household earnings sit near $60,622, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Saginaw County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,621 students), of which EF Rittmueller Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Lorenz C List School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EF Rittmueller Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. EF Rittmueller Middle School's enrollment has expanded 9% since 2018, when it stood at 337 (now 368). Over the same period, the White share increased from 84% to 89%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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