Parker Middle School

Parker Middle School is an elementary school of well-populated scale in HOWELL, Michigan, one of the schools within Howell Public Schools, serveing 1,011 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 174% larger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Howell Public Schools comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 7,045 students; Parker Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Parker Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Parker Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.8%; Parker Middle School posts 41.5%, -15.3 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Livingston County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $103,039 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Livingston County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,695 students), of which Parker Middle School is one.

Innovation Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Parker Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 43.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 23%: 824 students in 2018 compared to 1,011 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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