Hope Middle School

As a tiny intermediate school in HOLT, Michigan, Hope Middle School instructs 158 students from grades 5 through 6, operated by Holt Public Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Hope Middle School sits 69% leaner than that benchmark.

Hope Middle School is one of 9 schools operated by Holt Public Schools, a district that serves 4,699 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Hope Middle School records that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 19% multiracial, 13% Black, 12% Hispanic, 4% Asian. By comparison, Ingham County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Hope Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hope Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.3%; actual is 28.4%, a gap of -16.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Ingham County shows median household income runs about $65,526, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Hope Middle School is one of 100 public schools in Ingham County (combined enrollment of about 37,914 students).

The closest other public school is Elliott Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hope Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.7%.

Hope Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Hope Middle School's enrollment has fell 59% since 2018, when it stood at 389 (now 158). The White share of enrollment declined from 62% to 52% over that span.

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