Grant Middle School

As a middle-of-the-pack junior high in GRANT, Michigan, Grant Middle School teaches 445 students from grades 5 through 8, one of the schools within Grant Public School District.

Grant Public School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,438 students; Grant Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Grant Middle School shows that 72% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 23% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Newaygo County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grant Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Newaygo County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,304, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Grant Middle School is one of 23 public schools in Newaygo County (combined enrollment of about 6,782 students).

Grant Primary Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Grant Middle School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grant Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 32.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 613 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 14% to 23%. Class-load math has fell: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Grant Middle School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.