Richmond Middle School

As a middle-of-the-pack middle school in RICHMOND, Michigan, Richmond Middle School enrolls 570 students from grades 4 through 8, overseen by Richmond Community Schools.

Richmond Community Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,538 students; Richmond Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Richmond Middle School lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 6% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Richmond Middle School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Richmond Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 53.6%; actual is 40.9%, a gap of -12.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Macomb County put median household income runs about $77,837, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Richmond Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Richmond Community High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Richmond Middle School at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 43.5%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 31%: 434 students in 2018 compared to 570 in 2025.

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