Lakeshore High School

Lakeshore High School, a large senior high in STEVENSVILLE, Michigan, one of the schools within Lakeshore School District (Berrien), hosts 843 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 460 students per school, that is 83% larger than typical.

Across the 5 schools in Lakeshore School District (Berrien) (2,635 students total), Lakeshore High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Lakeshore High School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Berrien County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Berrien County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Berrien County put the typical household earns roughly $65,425 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Berrien County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,027 students), Lakeshore High School is one campus in the mix.

Lakeshore Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 877 students in 2018 compared to 843 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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