Leslie Middle School

Set in LESLIE, Michigan, Leslie Middle School is a compact middle school, part of Leslie Public Schools. It caters to 326 students across grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Leslie Middle School sits 35% smaller than that benchmark.

Leslie Public Schools comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,087 students; Leslie Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Leslie Middle School reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Leslie Middle School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at Leslie Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Leslie Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.7%, the actual is 34.9%, a residual of -9.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ingham County) records that the typical household earns roughly $65,526 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Ingham County's 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,914 students), Leslie Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Woodworth Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Leslie Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 390 students in 2018 compared to 326 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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