Oak Valley Middle School

Oak Valley Middle School is one of the middle-of-the-pack intermediate schools in COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, Michigan, operated by Huron Valley Schools, with 531 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 9.

Huron Valley Schools comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 7,372 students; Oak Valley Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Oak Valley Middle School logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Oak Valley Middle School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak Valley Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.9%; this one delivers 54.9%.

In the area at large, Oakland County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Oak Valley Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Country Oaks Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oak Valley Middle School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 50.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oak Valley Middle School has declined 24%, going from 703 students in 2018 to 531 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 90% to 82% over that span.

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