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Milford High School
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Milford High School
Milford High School is a secondary school of sprawling scale in HIGHLAND, Michigan, one of the schools within Huron Valley Schools, educateing 1,193 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Milford High School sits 159% above that benchmark.
Across the 16 schools in Huron Valley Schools (7,372 students total), Milford High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Milford High School records that nearly all students (89%) are White; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Milford High School has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Oakland County's rate of about 32%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Oakland County) logs that median household income runs about $97,760, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Milford High School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Heritage Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Milford High School's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 1,373 (now 1,193). White enrollment moved from 93% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.
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