Mason Middle School

Mason Middle School is a mid-tier middle-grades school in WATERFORD, Michigan, part of Waterford School District. The school instructs 731 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 46% larger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Waterford School District runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 6,641 students. Mason Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Mason Middle School lists that 56% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 15% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Mason Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mason Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 28.3%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Oakland County shows median household earnings sit near $97,760, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Mason Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Grayson Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mason Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mason Middle School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 43.8%.

Mason Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 999 students in 2018 compared to 731 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.