Hartford Middle School

Hartford Middle School operates as a compact 6-8 campus in HARTFORD, Michigan, one of the schools within Hartford Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 321 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Hartford Middle School sits 36% below that benchmark.

Within Hartford Public Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 1,338 students, Hartford Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Hartford Middle School reports that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 37% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 81% 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, Van Buren County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Van Buren County shows median household earnings sit near $68,114, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Van Buren County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,850 students), of which Hartford Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Hartford High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Hartford Middle School.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hartford Middle School has stayed largely flat, going from 315 students in 2018 to 321 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 49% to 59%. Class-load math has grew: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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