Macatawa Bay Middle School

Macatawa Bay Middle School operates as a reasonably sized middle school in HOLLAND, Michigan, one of the schools within West Ottawa Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 632 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 26% above the state mean of about 502.

West Ottawa Public School District comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 6,729 students; Macatawa Bay Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Macatawa Bay Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 35% White, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Macatawa Bay Middle School records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at Macatawa Bay Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ottawa County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Macatawa Bay Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Ottawa County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,502, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Ottawa County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students), Macatawa Bay Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Pine Creek Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Macatawa Bay Middle School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.4%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Macatawa Bay Middle School's enrollment has expanded 7% since 2018, when it stood at 592 (now 632). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 43% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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