Lake City High School

Lake City High School is a cozy high school in LAKE CITY, Michigan, operated by Lake City Area School District. The school instructs 369 students in grades 9 through 12.

Lake City Area School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,142 students; Lake City High School is among them.

Demographically, Lake City High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Lake City High School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Lake City High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 59% of students at Lake City High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the broader community, census data for Missaukee County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,194 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Lake City High School is one of 6 public schools in Missaukee County (combined enrollment of about 2,223 students).

The closest other public school is Lake City Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lake City High School.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 3%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 369 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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