Hamilton Middle School

Hamilton Middle School, a mid-sized 6-8 campus in HAMILTON, Michigan, one of the schools within Hamilton Community Schools, instructs 707 students, covering grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Hamilton Middle School sits 41% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Hamilton Community Schools, which oversees 7 schools and 2,567 students, Hamilton Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Hamilton Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder is composed of 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Allegan County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at Hamilton Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Allegan County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, Hamilton Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.8%; this one delivers 51.9%.

In the surrounding community, Allegan County reports that median household income runs about $83,283, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Allegan County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,174 students), Hamilton Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Hamilton High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hamilton Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.2%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hamilton Middle School has decreased 11%, going from 798 students in 2018 to 707 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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