Mill Creek Middle School

Mill Creek Middle School operates as a modestly sized junior high in COMSTOCK PARK, Michigan, run under Comstock Park Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 385 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 502.

Comstock Park Public Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,751 students; Mill Creek Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mill Creek Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 26% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mill Creek Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Kent County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Mill Creek Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Stoney Creek Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mill Creek Middle School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mill Creek Middle School's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 413 (now 385). White enrollment moved from 65% to 54% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.