Lake Fenton High School

Lake Fenton High School operates as an average-sized high school in LINDEN, Michigan, operated by Lake Fenton Community Schools. Current enrollment sits at 646 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 40% larger than the state mean of about 460.

Within Lake Fenton Community Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 2,017 students, Lake Fenton High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Lake Fenton High School logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Genesee County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Lake Fenton High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 21% of students at Lake Fenton High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Genesee County's rate of about 61%.

Around the school, census data for Genesee County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,281 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Genesee County runs 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students), of which Lake Fenton High School is one.

The closest other public school is West Shore Elementary School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 663 students in 2018 compared to 646 in 2025.

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