Middle School East

Set in CHESTERFIELD, Michigan, Middle School East is a mid-tier junior high, overseen by L'Anse Creuse Public Schools. It serves 626 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% bigger than the state mean of about 502.

Across the 17 schools in L'Anse Creuse Public Schools (9,090 students total), Middle School East accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Middle School East shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Macomb County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Middle School East higher than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Macomb County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Middle School East performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.4%, the actual is 40.3%, a residual of -11.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Macomb County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Middle School East is one campus in the mix.

Francis A Higgins Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Middle School East. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Middle School East ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 671 students in 2018 compared to 626 in 2025.

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