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Everett High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Everett High School
Everett High School is a high-enrollment 9-12 campus in LANSING, Michigan, run under Lansing Public School District. The school serves 1,017 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Everett High School sits 121% bigger than that benchmark.
Everett High School is one of 26 schools operated by Lansing Public School District, a district that caters to 10,048 students overall.
On demographics, Everett High School lists that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 18% White, 10% Asian, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Ingham County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ingham County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Zooming out to the county, Ingham County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,526 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Ingham County's 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,914 students), Everett High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Cavanaugh School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Everett High School.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Everett High School has shrank 38%, going from 1,652 students in 2018 to 1,017 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 24% to 18% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.
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