Scranton Middle School

As a heavily attended middle-grades school in BRIGHTON, Michigan, Scranton Middle School works with 850 students from grades 7 through 8, overseen by Brighton Area Schools. Compared to the state average of about 502 students per school, that is 69% bigger than typical.

Across the 8 schools in Brighton Area Schools (5,796 students total), Scranton Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Scranton Middle School shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Livingston County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Scranton Middle School lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 7% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Livingston County runs at roughly 20%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Scranton Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.4%; this one delivers 69.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Livingston County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,039, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Scranton Middle School is one of 48 public schools in Livingston County (combined enrollment of about 24,695 students).

Hawkins Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Scranton Middle School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 62.7%.

Scranton Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Scranton Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 923 (now 850). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

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