Luther L Wright K12 School

Luther L Wright K12 School is a high-enrollment multi-level school in IRONWOOD, Michigan, operated by Ironwood Area Schools of Gogebic County. The school works with 770 students in grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 281 students each, so Luther L Wright K12 School sits 174% bigger than that benchmark.

Ironwood Area Schools of Gogebic County runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 815 students. Luther L Wright K12 School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Luther L Wright K12 School records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 2% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Luther L Wright K12 School reports 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Luther L Wright K12 School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 40.6%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Gogebic County put the typical household earns roughly $52,732 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Gogebic County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,524 students), Luther L Wright K12 School is one campus in the mix.

Gogebic Co Community Education is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Luther L Wright K12 School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Luther L Wright K12 School at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 57.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 746 students in 2018 compared to 770 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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