Lawton Middle School

Lawton Middle School, a small intermediate school in LAWTON, Michigan, one of the schools within Lawton Community School District, hosts 325 students, covering grades 5 through 8. That puts it 35% smaller than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Lawton Community School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,027 students. Lawton Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lawton Middle School records that White students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. Compared to Van Buren County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Van Buren County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lawton Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 39.1%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Van Buren County put median household earnings sit near $68,114, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Lawton Middle School is one of 45 public schools in Van Buren County (combined enrollment of about 14,850 students).

Lawton High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lawton Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lawton Middle School at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 53.8%.

Lawton Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Lawton Middle School's enrollment has edged up 29% since 2018, when it stood at 251 (now 325). Class-load math has fell: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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