Montague High School

Located at 4900 STANTON BLVD, in MONTAGUE, Michigan, Montague High School is a middle-of-the-pack 9-12 campus that caters to 419 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Montague Area Public Schools.

Within Montague Area Public Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 1,247 students, Montague High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Montague High School shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Muskegon County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Montague High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Muskegon County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Muskegon County) records that the typical household earns roughly $65,024 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Montague High School is one of 71 public schools in Muskegon County (combined enrollment of about 25,245 students).

Nearest neighbor: Nellie B Chisholm Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Montague High School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 465 (now 419). White enrollment moved from 85% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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