Meridian Junior High School

Set in SANFORD, Michigan, Meridian Junior High School is a reasonably sized junior high, operated by Meridian Public Schools. It hosts 441 students across grades 5 through 8.

Across the 3 schools in Meridian Public Schools (1,374 students total), Meridian Junior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Meridian Junior High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Midland County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Meridian Junior High School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.4%; Meridian Junior High School posts 32.3%, -16.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Midland County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,705 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Midland County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,324 students), Meridian Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Meridian Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Meridian Junior High School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 4%: 423 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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