Roscommon High School
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Roscommon High School
Roscommon High School is one of the cozy 9-12 campuss in ROSCOMMON, Michigan, run under Roscommon Area Public Schools, with 337 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 27% leaner than the state mean of about 460.
Within Roscommon Area Public Schools, which oversees 3 schools and 791 students, Roscommon High School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Roscommon High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest reads as 4% multiracial. Compared to Roscommon County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at Roscommon High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Roscommon County's rate of about 70%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Roscommon High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.9%; this one delivers 50.4%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Roscommon County) logs that median household income runs about $55,246, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Roscommon County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,617 students), of which Roscommon High School is one.
The closest other public school is Roscommon Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Roscommon High School. On composite proficiency, Roscommon High School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.
Roscommon High School operates from a rural location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Roscommon High School's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 337).
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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