Garden City Middle School

Set in GARDEN CITY, Michigan, Garden City Middle School is a compact middle school, one of the schools within Garden City Public Schools. It teaches 423 students across grades 7 through 8.

Garden City Public Schools comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,193 students; Garden City Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Garden City Middle School records that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 10% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Garden City Middle School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Garden City Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 47% of students at Garden City Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Garden City Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.3%; actual is 24.4%, a gap of -20.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Wayne County put median household earnings sit near $60,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Garden City Middle School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

The closest other public school is Farmington 56 Campus, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 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), Garden City Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 23.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Garden City Middle School has ticked down 4%, going from 439 students in 2018 to 423 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 83% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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