Orchard View Middle School

Orchard View Middle School is one of the modestly sized 6-8 campuss in MUSKEGON, Michigan, operated by Orchard View Schools, with 422 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 9.

Orchard View Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Orchard View Schools, a district that instructs 2,041 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Orchard View Middle School shows that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 29% Black, 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Muskegon County (around 59%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Orchard View Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.6%; Orchard View Middle School posts 23.5%, -12.1 points below that line.

In the area at large, census data for Muskegon County shows 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%. Across Muskegon County's 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,245 students), Orchard View Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Orchard View High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Orchard View Middle School.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Orchard View Middle School's enrollment has fell 18% since 2018, when it stood at 512 (now 422). The White share of enrollment edged down from 69% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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