Houghton Middle School

Houghton Middle School is a middle school of compact scale in HOUGHTON, Michigan, run under Houghton-Portage Township School District, caters to 359 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 28% below the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Houghton-Portage Township School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,458 students; Houghton Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Houghton Middle School records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Houghton County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Houghton County (around 40%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Houghton Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.0%; this one delivers 61.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Houghton County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $58,899 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Houghton County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,267 students), of which Houghton Middle School is one.

Houghton Central High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Houghton Middle School. On composite proficiency, Houghton Middle School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.2%.

Houghton Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 5%: 343 students in 2018 compared to 359 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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