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Alumni: what's one memory from Millennium Middle School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
1,049
Middle
DISTRICT 974 · STATE 502
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH LYON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 263225007671
Millennium Middle School
61526 9 MILE RD, SOUTH LYON, MI 48178 · (248) 573-8200 · Oakland County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,049 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Michigan public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public middle schools
Student : Teacher
20.3:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
161 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 332 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 358 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 359 | 34% |
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
54.3%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
52.8%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.5%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Millennium Middle School
Millennium Middle School's state test result (59.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millennium Middle School this school | 1,049 | 15.3% | 59.3% |
| Centennial Middle School SOUTH LYON | 898 | 17.9% | 52.1% |
| Saline Middle School SALINE | 1,017 | 13.9% | 67.2% |
| Portage Central Middle School PORTAGE | 719 | 18.9% | 53.2% |
| Clifford H Smart Middle School COMMERCE TOWNSHIP | 888 | 20.2% | 59.8% |
| Pioneer Middle School PLYMOUTH | 827 | 16.3% | 65.5% |
Matched among Michigan middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Millennium Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Oakland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.3% | #62 of 397 | #18 of 41 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #68 of 380 | #14 of 41 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #93 of 377 | #21 of 40 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,049 | #12 of 491 | #3 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.3:1 | #401 of 436 | #42 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.7% | #223 of 437 | #33 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.3% | #442 of 477 | #34 of 46 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #310 of 339 | #32 of 35 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,049
-16 (-2%) vs 2020
-26% since 2000-01, when it was 1,423
Student : Teacher
20.3:1
was 20.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,049 | 51.6 | 20.3:1 | 15% (161) |
| 2023-24 | 1,043 | 52.2 | 20.0:1 | 17% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 1,039 | 52.5 | 19.8:1 | 17% (173) |
| 2020-21 | 1,065 | 53 | 20.1:1 | 17% (177) |
| 2017-18 | 1,081 | 53.3 | 20.3:1 | 17% (189) |
| 2015-16 | 894 | 44 | 20.3:1 | 14% (128) |
| 2010-11 | 876 | 41 | 21.4:1 | 19% (168) |
| 2000-01 | 1,423 | 74 | 19.2:1 | 8% (119) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Millennium Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (1,081 to 1,049); teachers down 3% (53.3 to 51.6).
About Millennium Middle School
Millennium Middle School is the name of a large middle school in SOUTH LYON, Michigan. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 1,049 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 109% above the 502-student average for middle schools in Michigan.
Millennium Middle School is part of a district of 13 schools: South Lyon Community Schools, with 8,231 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Millennium Middle School is White, at 81%. The school is also 8% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. The White share of the county population is lower, at 69%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Millennium Middle School scores 33%.
The school has 51.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 20.3 students per teacher. Middle schools in Michigan average 17.5:1, 2.8 fewer students per teacher than here. Of all students at Millennium Middle School, 15% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 32% average for public schools in Oakland County.
Among Michigan public middle schools, Millennium Middle School outscored 78%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 59.5% for a school in Michigan with Millennium Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Millennium Middle School posts 59.3%.
For Oakland County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $97,760, about 51% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 345 public schools in the county, enrolling about 169,926, Millennium Middle School among them.
Centennial Middle School is the nearest public school to Millennium Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Millennium Middle School is 3rd of 7 on proficiency.
The NCES locale for Millennium Middle School is Suburb: Mid-size, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 1,049, close to the 1,065 recorded in 2020-21.
Anyone can start a thread about special education services, counseling, and support programs at Millennium Middle School. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Oakland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,279,825
Census ACS
Median income
$97,760
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
345
169,926 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Lyon Community Schools
- South Lyon High SchoolHigh · 1,245 students
- South Lyon East High SchoolHigh · 1,174 students
- Centennial Middle SchoolMiddle · 898 students
- William A Pearson ElementaryElementary · 576 students
- Sharon J Hardy Elementary SchoolElementary · 570 students
- Kent Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
Other schools in SOUTH LYON
- South Lyon High SchoolHigh · 1,245 students
- South Lyon East High SchoolHigh · 1,174 students
- Centennial Middle SchoolMiddle · 898 students
- William A Pearson ElementaryElementary · 576 students
- Sharon J Hardy Elementary SchoolElementary · 570 students
- Kent Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
Other Millennium Middle schools
One other US public school is named Millennium Middle. Millennium Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- MILLENNIUM MIDDLE SCHOOLSANFORD, FL · 1,323 students
Nearby schools
- Centennial Middle School0.3 mi · 898
- SPECIAL EDUCATION0.3 mi · 1
- Sayre Elementary School0.5 mi · 450
- Frank E Bartlett School1.1 mi · 483
- South Lyon High School1.8 mi · 1,245
- William A Brummer Elementary School2.3 mi · 469
Frequently asked questions
About Millennium Middle SchoolHow many students attend Millennium Middle School?
Millennium Middle School enrolls approximately 1,049 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Millennium Middle School serve?
Millennium Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Millennium Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Millennium Middle School is approximately 20.3:1 (52 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Millennium Middle School?
Student demographics at Millennium Middle School are roughly 81% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Millennium Middle School in?
Millennium Middle School is part of South Lyon Community Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.