Imlay City Middle School

Set in IMLAY CITY, Michigan, Imlay City Middle School is an intimate intermediate school, operated by Imlay City Community Schools. It instructs 395 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 502 students per school, that is 21% below typical.

Imlay City Community Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,758 students. Imlay City Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Imlay City Middle School lists that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 24% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 91%.

Looking at school resources, Imlay City Middle School lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lapeer County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Imlay City Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.7%, the actual is 41.2%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lapeer County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,306 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Lapeer County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,962 students), of which Imlay City Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Weston Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Imlay City Middle School.

Imlay City Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 465 students in 2018 compared to 395 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share increased from 69% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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