Mackinaw Trail Middle School

Located at 8401 S MACKINAW TRL, in CADILLAC, Michigan, Mackinaw Trail Middle School is an average-sized middle-grades school that caters to 683 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Cadillac Area Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 502 students per school, that is 36% bigger than typical.

Cadillac Area Public Schools runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,050 students. Mackinaw Trail Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mackinaw Trail Middle School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wexford County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mackinaw Trail Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.3%; this one delivers 52.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wexford County indicate median household income runs about $61,085, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mackinaw Trail Middle School is one of 15 public schools in Wexford County (combined enrollment of about 8,553 students).

The closest other public school is Franklin Elementary School, roughly 2.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mackinaw Trail Middle School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.8%.

Mackinaw Trail Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 41%: 485 students in 2018 compared to 683 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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