HanoverHorton Middle School

Located at 10000 MOSCOW RD, in HORTON, Michigan, HanoverHorton Middle School is a small 6-8 campus that works with 250 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Hanover-Horton School District. Enrollment runs roughly 50% below the state mean of about 502.

HanoverHorton Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Hanover-Horton School District, a district that enrolls 1,001 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HanoverHorton Middle School reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting HanoverHorton Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, HanoverHorton Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.8%; actual is 28.4%, a gap of -21.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Jackson County shows median household earnings sit near $66,073, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Jackson County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,681 students), HanoverHorton Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HanoverHorton High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HanoverHorton Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. HanoverHorton Middle School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 254 (now 250). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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