Mason County Eastern Junior HighHigh School

Mason County Eastern Junior HighHigh School is a secondary school of rural-scale scale in CUSTER, Michigan, run under Mason County Eastern Schools, instructing 176 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Mason County Eastern Junior HighHigh School sits 62% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Mason County Eastern Schools (357 students total), Mason County Eastern Junior HighHigh School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mason County Eastern Junior HighHigh School lists that nearly all students (89%) are White; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Mason County (around 53%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Mason County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,748 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Mason County Eastern Junior HighHigh School is one of 13 public schools in Mason County (combined enrollment of about 3,846 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mason County Eastern Elem Sch, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Mason County Eastern Junior HighHigh School.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mason County Eastern Junior HighHigh School has declined 16%, going from 209 students in 2018 to 176 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged up from 81% to 89% over that span.

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