Malow Junior High School

Located at 6400 25 MILE RD, in SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Michigan, Malow Junior High School is a substantial junior high that serves 1,084 students (grades 7 through 9), one of the schools within Utica Community Schools. Compared to the state average of about 502 students per school, that is 116% bigger than typical.

Across the 37 schools in Utica Community Schools (25,574 students total), Malow Junior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Malow Junior High School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 8% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Malow Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.0%; this one delivers 49.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Macomb County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Malow Junior High School is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

Nearest neighbor: Eisenhower High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Malow Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Malow Junior High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.9%.

Malow Junior High School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Malow Junior High School's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 1,232 (now 1,084). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 90% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 in 2025.

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