Gladwin High School

Gladwin High School is a secondary school of medium-sized scale in GLADWIN, Michigan, part of Gladwin Community Schools, educateing 486 students in grades 9 through 12.

Across the 5 schools in Gladwin Community Schools (1,655 students total), Gladwin High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Gladwin High School logs that nearly all students (95%) are White. The remainder reads as 3% Hispanic. Compared to Gladwin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Gladwin High School reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 40% 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, Gladwin County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Gladwin County) shows that median household earnings sit near $55,349, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Gladwin High School is one of 7 public schools in Gladwin County (combined enrollment of about 2,529 students).

Gladwin Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Gladwin High School.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 564 students in 2018 compared to 486 in 2025.

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