GalesburgAugusta Middle School

Located at 750 W VAN BUREN ST, in AUGUSTA, Michigan, GalesburgAugusta Middle School is a low-enrollment intermediate school that works with 302 students (grades 5 through 8), one of the schools within Galesburg-Augusta Community Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 40% smaller than the state mean of about 502.

GalesburgAugusta Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by Galesburg-Augusta Community Schools, a district that caters to 995 students overall.

Demographically, GalesburgAugusta Middle School shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Kalamazoo County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GalesburgAugusta Middle School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 41% of students at GalesburgAugusta Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GalesburgAugusta Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.0%; this one comes in at 31.1%, -16.9 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Kalamazoo County shows median household income runs about $72,532, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Kalamazoo County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students), of which GalesburgAugusta Middle School is one.

GalesburgAugusta Alternative Education is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 348 students in 2018 compared to 302 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 91% to 84% over that span.

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