Menominee Jr High School

Menominee Jr High School is one of the intimate middle schools in MENOMINEE, Michigan, one of the schools within Menominee Area Public Schools, with 271 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 46% below the state mean of about 502.

Menominee Area Public Schools comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,419 students; Menominee Jr High School is among them.

On demographics, Menominee Jr High School shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Menominee County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Menominee Jr High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Menominee Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.7%, the actual is 36.7%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Menominee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $56,435 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Menominee County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,979 students), of which Menominee Jr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Menominee High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Menominee Jr High School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Menominee Jr High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Menominee Jr High School's enrollment has edged up 32% since 2018, when it stood at 206 (now 271). Class-load math has widened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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