Lakeview High School

Set in LAKEVIEW, Michigan, Lakeview High School is a compact four-year high school, one of the schools within Lakeview Community Schools (Montcalm). It instructs 368 students across grades 8 through 12.

Lakeview Community Schools (Montcalm) runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,003 students. Lakeview High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lakeview High School shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Montcalm County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Lakeview High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lakeview High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.6%; this one delivers 46.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Montcalm County) records that the typical household earns roughly $67,344 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Lakeview High School is one of 33 public schools in Montcalm County (combined enrollment of about 11,168 students).

The closest other public school is Lakeview Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lakeview High School. On composite proficiency, Lakeview High School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 433 students in 2018 compared to 368 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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