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Holland Woods Middle School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Holland Woods Middle School
As an intimate 6-8 campus in PORT HURON, Michigan, Holland Woods Middle School hosts 404 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Port Huron Area School District.
Holland Woods Middle School is one of 16 schools operated by Port Huron Area School District, a district that instructs 6,916 students overall.
On demographics, Holland Woods Middle School lists that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 14% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 9% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 91%.
On the resource side, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, St. Clair County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Holland Woods Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.9%.
Across the wider county, St. Clair County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,270, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Clair County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,511 students), Holland Woods Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Port Huron Northern High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Holland Woods Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 32.0%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Holland Woods Middle School has contracted 24%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 404 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 14% to 9%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.
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