Pinconning Middle School
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Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pinconning Middle School
Pinconning Middle School is a cozy middle school in PINCONNING, Michigan, overseen by Pinconning Area Schools. The school caters to 244 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 51% below the state mean of about 502.
Pinconning Area Schools comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,095 students; Pinconning Middle School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Pinconning Middle School records that nearly all students (89%) are White; the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Bay County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at Pinconning Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Pinconning Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.7%; this one delivers 39.0%.
Across the wider county, census data for Bay County shows median household earnings sit near $61,763, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Bay County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,525 students), of which Pinconning Middle School is one.
Pinconning High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pinconning Middle School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.2%.
The campus sits in a countryside setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pinconning Middle School has ticked down 19%, going from 301 students in 2018 to 244 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.
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