Riley Street Middle School

Riley Street Middle School is a 6-8 campus of moderately sized scale in HUDSONVILLE, Michigan, part of Hudsonville Public School District, instructing 688 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Riley Street Middle School sits 37% larger than that benchmark.

Riley Street Middle School is one of 12 schools operated by Hudsonville Public School District, a district that hosts 6,654 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Riley Street Middle School records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Riley Street Middle School records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Ottawa County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Riley Street Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.5%, the actual is 58.2%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Ottawa County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,502 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Ottawa County runs 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students), of which Riley Street Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Jamestown Upper Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Riley Street Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 68.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 6%: 649 students in 2018 compared to 688 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 89% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.