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Enrollment
990
Middle
DISTRICT 589 · STATE 502
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKEVIEW PUBLIC SCHOOLS (MACOMB)·NCES 262088005756
Jefferson Middle School
27900 ROCKWOOD ST, SAINT CLAIR SHORES, MI 48081 · (586) 445-4130 · Macomb County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL990 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% of Michigan public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
480 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 329 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 345 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 316 | 32% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Jefferson Middle School→Lakeview High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb). Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
45.1%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
39.1%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.8%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Jefferson Middle School
Jefferson Middle School's state test result (44.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Middle School this school | 990 | 48.5% | 44.3% |
| Mona Shores Middle School MUSKEGON | 930 | 52.2% | 33.6% |
| Swartz Creek Middle School SWARTZ CREEK | 758 | 43.9% | 38.6% |
| Kennedy Middle School SAINT CLAIR SHORES | 710 | 42.7% | 39.6% |
| Northwest Kidder Middle School JACKSON | 786 | 44.8% | 29.4% |
| Flushing Middle School FLUSHING | 636 | 47.8% | 42.5% |
Matched among Michigan middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Jefferson Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Macomb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.3% | #161 of 397 | #9 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #156 of 380 | #10 of 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #159 of 377 | #8 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 990 | #18 of 491 | #6 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #368 of 436 | #26 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.4% | #119 of 437 | #14 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.5% | #221 of 477 | #20 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #241 of 339 | #23 of 31 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
990
+163 (+20%) vs 2020
+70% since 1990-91, when it was 581
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 16.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 990 | 51.4 | 19.3:1 | 48% (480) |
| 2023-24 | 974 | 45.6 | 21.4:1 | 50% (490) |
| 2022-23 | 956 | 42.1 | 22.7:1 | 50% (478) |
| 2020-21 | 827 | 50 | 16.5:1 | 43% (358) |
| 2017-18 | 1,081 | 43.9 | 24.6:1 | 40% (427) |
| 2015-16 | 991 | 45 | 22.0:1 | 36% (354) |
| 2010-11 | 847 | 38 | 22.3:1 | 41% (347) |
| 2000-01 | 645 | 34 | 19.0:1 | 7% (48) |
| 1990-91 | 581 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (1,081 to 990); teachers up 17% (43.9 to 51.4).
About Jefferson Middle School
Students in SAINT CLAIR SHORES, Michigan, attend Jefferson Middle School, a high-enrollment middle school. The school enrolls 990 students in grades 6 through 8. Middle schools in Michigan average about 502 students, which makes this school 97% above average.
The district, Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb), operates 7 schools serving 4,124 students.
The student body at Jefferson Middle School is 66% White. After that, the student body is 18% Black, 11% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Among all residents of Macomb County, the White share is about 75%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
A staff of 51.4 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 19.3:1. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for middle schools in Michigan is 1.7 students per teacher. By family income, 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Jefferson Middle School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 65% of Michigan public middle schools.
Jefferson Middle School scores 44.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 44.8%.
The school's county is Macomb County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $77,837, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. There are 236 public schools in the county, enrolling about 115,743, Jefferson Middle School among them.
Greenwood Elementary School is the nearest public school to Jefferson Middle School, about 0.1 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 6 nearby schools that report test results, Jefferson Middle School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
NCES assigns Jefferson Middle School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 163 students, from 827 to 990. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 19.3:1, from 16.5:1.
Jefferson Middle School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Macomb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
879,853
Census ACS
Median income
$77,837
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
236
115,743 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb)
- Lakeview High SchoolHigh · 1,319 students
- Princeton Elementary SchoolElementary · 652 students
- Greenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 430 students
- Ardmore Elementary SchoolElementary · 370 students
- Harmon Elementary SchoolElementary · 317 students
- Lakeview Virtual SchoolCombined · 46 students
Other schools in SAINT CLAIR SHORES
- Lakeview High SchoolHigh · 1,319 students
- Lake Shore High SchoolHigh · 914 students
- Kennedy Middle SchoolMiddle · 710 students
- Princeton Elementary SchoolElementary · 652 students
- Rodgers Elementary SchoolElementary · 534 students
- Violet Elementary SchoolElementary · 471 students
Other Jefferson Middle schools
26 other US public schools in 18 states are named Jefferson Middle. Jefferson Middle School is the 4th largest of the 27.
- Jefferson Middle SchoolMIDLAND, MI · 919 students
- Jefferson Middle SchoolMONROE, MI · 304 students
- Jefferson MiddleArlington, VA · 1,120 students
- Jefferson MiddleSan Gabriel, CA · 1,013 students
- Jefferson Middle SchoolJefferson, GA · 1,009 students
Nearby schools
- Greenwood Elementary School0.1 mi · 430
- Lakeview High School0.3 mi · 1,319
- Lakeview Virtual School0.5 mi · 46
- Rodgers Elementary School0.9 mi · 534
- Ardmore Elementary School0.9 mi · 370
- Princeton Elementary School1.0 mi · 652
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Jefferson Middle School?
Jefferson Middle School enrolls approximately 990 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Jefferson Middle School serve?
Jefferson Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Jefferson Middle School?
Approximately 19.3:1 students per teacher at Jefferson Middle School.
How diverse is Jefferson Middle School?
Jefferson Middle School reports a student body of 66% White, 5% Hispanic, 18% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Jefferson Middle School?
Jefferson Middle School is overseen by Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb) in Macomb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.