Portland Middle School

Portland Middle School, a modestly sized middle-grades school in PORTLAND, Michigan, one of the schools within Portland Public Schools, educates 418 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Across the 4 schools in Portland Public Schools (1,979 students total), Portland Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Portland Middle School shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Ionia County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ionia County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Portland Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.1%; this one comes in at 40.3%, -16.8 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Ionia County) logs that median household income runs about $75,611, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Portland Middle School is one of 30 public schools in Ionia County (combined enrollment of about 10,506 students).

Oakwood Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Portland Middle School. On composite proficiency, Portland Middle School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.1%.

Portland Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 467 students in 2018 compared to 418 in 2025.

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