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Enrollment
688
Middle
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 502
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUDSONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 261884001250
Riley Street Middle School
2745 RILEY ST, HUDSONVILLE, MI 49426 · (616) 896-1920 · Ottawa County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL688 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Michigan public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
136 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 213 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 232 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 243 | 35% |
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Riley Street Middle School→Hudsonville High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Hudsonville Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
55.0%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
54.2%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
58.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.5%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Riley Street Middle School
Riley Street Middle School's state test result (58.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riley Street Middle School this school | 688 | 19.8% | 58.2% |
| Kraft Meadows Intermediate School CALEDONIA | 703 | 17.1% | 65.5% |
| Duncan Lake Middle School CALEDONIA | 696 | 16.5% | 68.0% |
| Riley Upper Elementary School LIVONIA | 615 | 17.4% | 47.0% |
| Holmes Middle School LIVONIA | 670 | 16.4% | 62.0% |
| Portage Central Middle School PORTAGE | 719 | 18.9% | 53.2% |
Matched among Michigan middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Riley Street Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Ottawa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.2% | #69 of 397 | #7 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #59 of 380 | #6 of 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #92 of 377 | #8 of 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 688 | #114 of 491 | #6 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #229 of 436 | #13 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.9% | #230 of 437 | #8 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.8% | #412 of 477 | #10 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.0% | #57 of 101 | #3 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
688
-27 (-4%) vs 2020
+59% since 2000-01, when it was 433
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 17.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 688 | 39.1 | 17.6:1 | 20% (136) |
| 2023-24 | 687 | 40.3 | 17.0:1 | 29% (198) |
| 2022-23 | 687 | 39.3 | 17.5:1 | 19% (133) |
| 2020-21 | 715 | 40 | 17.9:1 | 20% (144) |
| 2017-18 | 649 | 32.2 | 20.2:1 | 26% (170) |
| 2015-16 | 612 | 31 | 19.7:1 | 24% (146) |
| 2010-11 | 519 | 28 | 18.5:1 | 35% (184) |
| 2000-01 | 433 | 27 | 16.0:1 | 14% (62) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riley Street Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (649 to 688); teachers up 21% (32.2 to 39.1).
About Riley Street Middle School
Riley Street Middle School is a medium-sized middle school in Michigan, with an address in HUDSONVILLE. The grade span is 6 through 8, and enrollment is 688 students. An average school in this group (middle schools in Michigan) has about 502 students.
In Hudsonville Public School District, 12 schools enroll a combined 6,654 students.
Most students at Riley Street Middle School are White: 82% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. County-wide, about 84% of residents are White. By the diversity index, Riley Street Middle School comes in at 32%.
The teaching staff at Riley Street Middle School is 39.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 17.6:1. Middle schools in Michigan average about 17.5:1, a similar figure. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 20%. On average, public schools in Ottawa County report 34%.
Riley Street Middle School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 79% of Michigan public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Riley Street Middle School is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (58.2% versus 57.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Michigan.
Within Ottawa County, median household income is about $90,502, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Ottawa County number 103 and enroll about 42,894.
The closest public school to Riley Street Middle School is Jamestown Upper Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 68.0%, higher than Riley Street Middle School's 58.2%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Riley Street Middle School had 715 students in 2020-21 and 688 in 2024-25, a 4% decrease.
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Ottawa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
301,203
Census ACS
Median income
$90,502
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
103
42,894 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hudsonville Public School District
- Hudsonville High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- 56 Building at GeorgetownMiddle · 626 students
- Baldwin Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 610 students
- Georgetown Elementary SchoolElementary · 450 students
- Alward Elementary SchoolElementary · 435 students
- South Elementary SchoolElementary · 391 students
Other schools in HUDSONVILLE
- Hudsonville High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- 56 Building at GeorgetownMiddle · 626 students
- Baldwin Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 610 students
- Georgetown Elementary SchoolElementary · 450 students
- Alward Elementary SchoolElementary · 435 students
- South Elementary SchoolElementary · 391 students
Nearby schools
- Jamestown Upper Elementary School0.2 mi · 327
- Jamestown Lower Elementary School0.4 mi · 289
- Forest Grove Elementary School2.2 mi · 254
- Hudsonville High School2.4 mi · 1,995
- South Elementary School2.5 mi · 391
- Park Elemementary School3.2 mi · 260
Frequently asked questions
About Riley Street Middle SchoolHow many students attend Riley Street Middle School?
Riley Street Middle School enrolls approximately 688 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Riley Street Middle School serve?
Riley Street Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Riley Street Middle School?
Approximately 17.6:1 students per teacher at Riley Street Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Riley Street Middle School?
Student demographics at Riley Street Middle School are roughly 82% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Riley Street Middle School?
Riley Street Middle School is overseen by Hudsonville Public School District in Ottawa County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.