Leon W Hayes Intermediate School

Leon W Hayes Intermediate School is one of the high-enrollment middle schools in GRAND LEDGE, Michigan, run under Grand Ledge Public Schools, with 810 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 6. That puts it 61% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Grand Ledge Public Schools comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,406 students; Leon W Hayes Intermediate School is among them.

On demographics, Leon W Hayes Intermediate School reports that 69% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Eaton County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Leon W Hayes Intermediate School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Eaton County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Leon W Hayes Intermediate School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 54.8%; Leon W Hayes Intermediate School posts 42.6%, -12.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, census data for Eaton County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,597 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Eaton County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,025 students), Leon W Hayes Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Willow Ridge Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leon W Hayes Intermediate School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Leon W Hayes Intermediate School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 50.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

On allk12, members of the Leon W Hayes Intermediate School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.