Henry Ford II High School

Located at 11911 CLINTON RIVER RD, in STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan, Henry Ford II High School is a heavily attended secondary school that teaches 1,663 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Utica Community Schools. That puts it 262% bigger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 460 students.

Utica Community Schools comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 25,574 students; Henry Ford II High School is among them.

On demographics, Henry Ford II High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Henry Ford II High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Macomb County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Macomb County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Henry Ford II High School is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

Browning Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 1,970 students in 2018 compared to 1,663 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 89% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

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