Royal Oak Middle School

Royal Oak Middle School operates as a well-populated middle-grades school in ROYAL OAK, Michigan, overseen by Royal Oak Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,058 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 111% bigger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Across the 9 schools in Royal Oak Schools (4,727 students total), Royal Oak Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Royal Oak Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 73%; the rest reads as 11% Black, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Royal Oak Middle School has 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Royal Oak Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of -7.0 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Oakland County put the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Royal Oak Middle School is one of 345 public schools in Oakland County (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students).

Nearest neighbor: Northwood Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Royal Oak Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Royal Oak Middle School has shrank 11%, going from 1,187 students in 2018 to 1,058 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 79% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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