Parchment Middle School

Located at 307 N RIVERVIEW DR, in KALAMAZOO, Michigan, Parchment Middle School is a compact middle school that caters to 352 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Parchment School District. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Parchment Middle School sits 30% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Parchment School District, which oversees 6 schools and 1,558 students, Parchment Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Parchment Middle School logs that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 14% multiracial, 12% Black, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Kalamazoo County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Parchment Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.3%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kalamazoo County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,532, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kalamazoo County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students), of which Parchment Middle School is one.

Parchment Central Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Parchment Middle School.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Parchment Middle School has ticked down 5%, going from 372 students in 2018 to 352 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 67% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Parchment Middle School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.