Onsted Middle School

Onsted Middle School is a tight-knit intermediate school in ONSTED, Michigan, operated by Onsted Community Schools. The school caters to 243 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 52% smaller than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Onsted Community Schools runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,144 students. Onsted Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Onsted Middle School records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. Compared to Lenawee County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Onsted Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.2%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lenawee County) shows that median household earnings sit near $70,518, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Lenawee County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,256 students), of which Onsted Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Onsted Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Onsted Middle School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

Onsted Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Onsted Middle School's enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 322 (now 243). Over the same period, the White share fell from 92% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.