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Enrollment
671
Middle
DISTRICT 615 · STATE 502
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GROSSE POINTE PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 262574006225
Parcells Middle School
20600 MACK AVE, GROSSE POINTE WOODS, MI 48236 · (313) 432-4600 · Wayne County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL671 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of Michigan public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
161 students
DISTRICT 15% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 153 | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 162 | 24% |
| Grade 7 | 183 | 27% |
| Grade 8 | 173 | 26% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
50.9%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
40.8%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.6%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Parcells Middle School
Parcells Middle School's state test result (47.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parcells Middle School this school | 671 | 24.0% | 47.4% |
| Warner Middle School FARMINGTON HILLS | 559 | 26.3% | 43.8% |
| Berkshire Middle School BEVERLY HILLS | 695 | 19.3% | 62.0% |
| Johnson Upper Elementary School WESTLAND | 503 | 28.0% | 41.1% |
| Frost Middle School LIVONIA | 641 | 25.3% | 59.4% |
| Middle School East CHESTERFIELD | 626 | 33.5% | 40.3% |
Matched among Michigan middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Parcells Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Wayne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #143 of 397 | #13 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #141 of 380 | #16 of 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #113 of 377 | #12 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 671 | #120 of 491 | #16 of 68 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #164 of 436 | #25 of 62 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #94 of 437 | #18 of 62 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.0% | #389 of 477 | #57 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.9% | #330 of 339 | #52 of 55 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
671
-114 (-15%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 667
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 17.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 671 | 39.8 | 16.9:1 | 24% (161) |
| 2023-24 | 669 | 44.9 | 14.9:1 | 31% (205) |
| 2022-23 | 677 | 48.2 | 14.1:1 | 36% (245) |
| 2020-21 | 785 | 45 | 17.4:1 | 35% (276) |
| 2017-18 | 677 | 38.7 | 17.5:1 | 29% (198) |
| 2015-16 | 695 | 42 | 16.6:1 | 25% (173) |
| 2010-11 | 694 | 41 | 16.9:1 | 18% (126) |
| 2000-01 | 797 | 49 | 16.3:1 | 1% (10) |
| 1990-91 | 667 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parcells Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (677 to 671); teachers up 3% (38.7 to 39.8).
About Parcells Middle School
Parcells Middle School is a middle school with a street address in GROSSE POINTE WOODS, Michigan. It teaches 671 students in grades 5 through 8. That is 34% bigger than the average of about 502 students for middle schools in Michigan.
Grosse Pointe Public Schools is the district for Parcells Middle School. It has 12 schools and 6,326 students.
At Parcells Middle School, 59% of students are White. The remaining students are 30% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. Census figures show Wayne County is about 49% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Parcells Middle School scores 56%.
Parcells Middle School lists 39.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 16.9 students per teacher. The average ratio among middle schools in Michigan is similar, at 17.5:1. About 24% of students at Parcells Middle School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Wayne County is 42 points.
Among Michigan public middle schools, Parcells Middle School outscored 51%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Parcells Middle School falls in the middle 80% of Michigan schools: 47.4% actual against 55.6% predicted.
For Wayne County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $60,539, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 16% of people live in poverty. There are 573 public schools in the county, enrolling about 259,786, Parcells Middle School among them.
Stevens T Mason Elementary School is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Parcells Middle School ranks 3rd of 5 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 47.4% against a local average of 46.6%.
The NCES locale for Parcells Middle School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased by 15% across 4 years, from 785 in 2020-21 to 671 in 2024-25.
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Wayne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,772,259
Census ACS
Median income
$60,539
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
573
259,786 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Grosse Pointe Public Schools
- Grosse Pointe South High SchoolHigh · 1,123 students
- Grosse Pointe North High SchoolHigh · 924 students
- Brownell Middle SchoolMiddle · 605 students
- Pierce Middle SchoolMiddle · 570 students
- George Defer Elementary SchoolElementary · 460 students
- John Monteith Elementary SchoolElementary · 456 students
Other schools in GROSSE POINTE WOODS
- Grosse Pointe North High SchoolHigh · 924 students
- John Monteith Elementary SchoolElementary · 456 students
- Ferry Elementary SchoolElementary · 357 students
- Stevens T Mason Elementary SchoolElementary · 274 students
Nearby schools
- Stevens T Mason Elementary School0.2 mi · 274
- Grosse Pointe North High School1.0 mi · 924
- Avatar Academy of Excellence1.0 mi · 78
- Harper Woods Middle School1.1 mi · 353
- Elmwood Elementary School1.1 mi · 305
- Ferry Elementary School1.1 mi · 357
Frequently asked questions
About Parcells Middle SchoolHow large is Parcells Middle School?
Parcells Middle School enrolls approximately 671 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Parcells Middle School serve?
Parcells Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Parcells Middle School?
Approximately 16.9:1 students per teacher at Parcells Middle School.
How diverse is Parcells Middle School?
Parcells Middle School reports a student body of 59% White, 4% Hispanic, 30% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Parcells Middle School?
Parcells Middle School is overseen by Grosse Pointe Public Schools in Wayne County.
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