Marcellus Middle School

Set in MARCELLUS, Michigan, Marcellus Middle School is a minimally staffed middle-grades school, one of the schools within Marcellus Community Schools. It educates 136 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Marcellus Middle School sits 73% smaller than that benchmark.

Marcellus Community Schools runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 600 students. Marcellus Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Marcellus Middle School records that nearly all students (87%) are White; the rest consists of 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Cass County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Marcellus Middle School logs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Marcellus Middle School ranks in the top 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 40.5%; Marcellus Middle School posts 56.1%, +15.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cass County indicate median household income runs about $70,443, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Marcellus Middle School is one of 23 public schools in Cass County (combined enrollment of about 6,258 students).

Marcellus Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Marcellus Middle School. On composite proficiency, Marcellus Middle School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

Marcellus Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Marcellus Middle School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.