Ishpeming High School

Ishpeming High School operates as an one-room-style four-year high school in ISHPEMING, Michigan, one of the schools within Ishpeming Public School District No. 1. Current enrollment sits at 172 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 460 students per school, that is 63% below typical.

Ishpeming High School is one of 4 schools operated by Ishpeming Public School District No. 1, a district that educates 612 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ishpeming High School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 39% of students at Ishpeming High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Marquette County) logs that median household income runs about $65,429, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marquette County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,657 students), of which Ishpeming High School is one.

The closest other public school is Ishpeming Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Ishpeming High School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 28%: 240 students in 2018 compared to 172 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Ishpeming High School typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.