Lawton High School

Lawton High School, a tight-knit secondary school in LAWTON, Michigan, operated by Lawton Community School District, teaches 279 students, covering grades 8 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Lawton High School sits 39% leaner than that benchmark.

Lawton Community School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,027 students; Lawton High School is among them.

On demographics, Lawton High School records that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lawton High School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Van Buren County indicate median household income runs about $68,114, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Van Buren County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,850 students), Lawton High School is one campus in the mix.

Lawton Accelerated Academic Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 301 students in 2018 compared to 279 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Lawton High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.