Mason Middle School

Mason Middle School is one of the tight-knit middle schools in ERIE, Michigan, run under Mason Consolidated Schools (Monroe), with 223 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Mason Middle School sits 56% below that benchmark.

Within Mason Consolidated Schools (Monroe), which oversees 4 schools and 980 students, Mason Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Mason Middle School lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 10% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Mason Middle School records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Monroe County's rate of about 41%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mason Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.4%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Monroe County shows median household earnings sit near $77,335, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monroe County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,286 students), of which Mason Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mason Central School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Mason Middle School. On composite proficiency, Mason Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

Mason Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Mason Middle School's enrollment has fell 21% since 2018, when it stood at 281 (now 223). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.