Monroe Middle School

Set in MONROE, Michigan, Monroe Middle School is a reasonably sized middle-grades school, part of Monroe Public Schools. It serves 674 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 34% bigger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Monroe Public Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,384 students. Monroe Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Monroe Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 14% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at Monroe Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Monroe County (around 41%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Monroe Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.2%; actual is 26.2%, a gap of -12.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Monroe County) logs that median household income runs about $77,335, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Monroe County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,286 students), of which Monroe Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Orchard Center High School, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Monroe Middle School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Monroe Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 33.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 799 students in 2018 compared to 674 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 80% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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