Fort Gratiot Middle School

Located at 3985 KEEWAHDIN RD, in FORT GRATIOT, Michigan, Fort Gratiot Middle School is a moderately sized 6-8 campus that teaches 533 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Port Huron Area School District.

Within Port Huron Area School District, which oversees 16 schools and 6,916 students, Fort Gratiot Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Fort Gratiot Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with St. Clair County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below St. Clair County's rate of about 46%.

After controlling for student poverty, Fort Gratiot Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 44.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (St. Clair County) reports that median household income runs about $71,270, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across St. Clair County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,511 students), Fort Gratiot Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Edison Elementary School, roughly 1.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fort Gratiot Middle School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fort Gratiot Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 33.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Fort Gratiot Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 664 (now 533).

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.