Garber High School

Garber High School operates as an average-sized high school in ESSEXVILLE, Michigan, one of the schools within Essexville-Hampton Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 489 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Within Essexville-Hampton Public Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 1,523 students, Garber High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Garber High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Garber High School reports 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 37% of students at Garber High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bay County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bay County put median household earnings sit near $61,763, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Bay County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,525 students), of which Garber High School is one.

The closest other public school is Cramer Junior High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Garber High School's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 571 (now 489). White enrollment moved from 93% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Garber High School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.