Kingsford Middle School

Kingsford Middle School operates as a mid-tier junior high in KINGSFORD, Michigan, overseen by Breitung Township School District. Current enrollment sits at 608 students spanning grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 21% above the state mean of about 502.

Breitung Township School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,945 students; Kingsford Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Kingsford Middle School shows that nearly all students (91%) are White. The remainder consists of 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Kingsford Middle School records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kingsford Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.7%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of -1.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Dickinson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,156 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dickinson County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,632 students), of which Kingsford Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kingsford High School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kingsford Middle School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kingsford Middle School has grew 7%, going from 566 students in 2018 to 608 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.