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Kingsley Area High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kingsley Area High School
As a mid-sized secondary school in KINGSLEY, Michigan, Kingsley Area High School enrolls 401 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Kingsley Area Schools.
Kingsley Area Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,422 students; Kingsley Area High School is among them.
Demographically, Kingsley Area High School logs that nearly all students (95%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Grand Traverse County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, Kingsley Area High School records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
In the area at large, Grand Traverse County reports that median household income runs about $81,647, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Grand Traverse County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,069 students), Kingsley Area High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Kingsley Area Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Kingsley Area High School.
Kingsley Area High School operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 442 students in 2018 compared to 401 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.
On the community side, members of the Kingsley Area High School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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Related schools
- Kingsley Area Elementary SchoolElementary · 655 students
- Kingsley Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 366 students
- Kingsley Area Elementary SchoolElementary · 655 students
- Kingsley Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 366 students
- Kingsley Area Elementary School0.4 mi · 655
- Kingsley Area Middle School0.5 mi · 366
- Courtade Elementary School8.5 mi · 215
- Fife Lake Elementary School8.7 mi · 144
- Buckley Community Schools8.8 mi · 488
- Blair Elementary School9.1 mi · 202