KuehnHaven Middle School

KuehnHaven Middle School is one of the modestly sized intermediate schools in MONTROSE, Michigan, operated by Montrose Community Schools, with 420 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 8.

Montrose Community Schools runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,435 students. KuehnHaven Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, KuehnHaven Middle School shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Genesee County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, KuehnHaven Middle School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, KuehnHaven Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of -8.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Genesee County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $62,281 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. KuehnHaven Middle School is one of 158 public schools in Genesee County (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students).

Nearest neighbor: HillMcCloy High School, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KuehnHaven Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. KuehnHaven Middle School's enrollment has edged up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 380 (now 420). The White share of enrollment fell from 91% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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