Mancelona Middle School

Mancelona Middle School operates as a small middle school in MANCELONA, Michigan, overseen by Mancelona Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 242 students spanning grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 502 students per school, that is 52% smaller than typical.

Within Mancelona Public Schools, which oversees 3 schools and 773 students, Mancelona Middle School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Mancelona Middle School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Antrim County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at Mancelona Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Antrim County (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mancelona Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.6%; this one delivers 41.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Antrim County shows median household earnings sit near $72,054, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Mancelona Middle School is one of 13 public schools in Antrim County (combined enrollment of about 2,700 students).

Mancelona Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Mancelona Middle School.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Mancelona Middle School's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 327 (now 242). Class-load math has fell: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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