South Hills Middle School

South Hills Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan, run under Bloomfield Hills Schools. The school hosts 555 students in grades 6 through 8.

Bloomfield Hills Schools runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,745 students. South Hills Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, South Hills Middle School shows that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 8% Asian, 7% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting South Hills Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 7% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Oakland County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, South Hills Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.3%; this one delivers 72.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Oakland County indicate median household income runs about $97,760, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. South Hills Middle School is one of 345 public schools in Oakland County (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students).

Conant Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Hills Middle School. On composite proficiency, South Hills Middle School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 68.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. South Hills Middle School's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 749 (now 555). Class-load math has fell: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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