Highlander Way Middle School

Highlander Way Middle School, a large intermediate school in HOWELL, Michigan, part of Howell Public Schools, educates 789 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 57% bigger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Highlander Way Middle School is one of 10 schools operated by Howell Public Schools, a district that teaches 7,045 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Highlander Way Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Highlander Way Middle School reports 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 23% of students at Highlander Way Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Highlander Way Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 56.1%; this one comes in at 41.7%, -14.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Livingston County reports that median household income runs about $103,039, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Livingston County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,695 students), of which Highlander Way Middle School is one.

Adult Transition Services is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highlander Way Middle School. On composite proficiency, Highlander Way Middle School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Highlander Way Middle School's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 849 (now 789). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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