Pine River Area Middle School

Pine River Area Middle School is one of the low-enrollment middle schools in LEROY, Michigan, part of Pine River Area Schools, with 261 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 48% leaner than the state mean of about 502.

Pine River Area Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 894 students; Pine River Area Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Pine River Area Middle School reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pine River Area Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.0%; this one delivers 35.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Osceola County) shows that median household income runs about $58,267, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Osceola County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,573 students), of which Pine River Area Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pine River Area High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Pine River Area Middle School. On composite proficiency, Pine River Area Middle School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

Pine River Area Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 55%: 168 students in 2018 compared to 261 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 95% to 91% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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