Spring Lake High School

Located at 16140 148TH AVE, in SPRING LAKE, Michigan, Spring Lake High School is a large senior high that caters to 795 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Spring Lake Public Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Spring Lake High School sits 73% bigger than that benchmark.

Spring Lake Public Schools runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,271 students. Spring Lake High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Spring Lake High School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.6:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 17% of students at Spring Lake High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ottawa County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ottawa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,502 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Spring Lake High School is one of 103 public schools in Ottawa County (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students).

Nearest neighbor: Spring Lake Alternative Education, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spring Lake High School.

Spring Lake High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Spring Lake High School's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 851 (now 795). Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Spring Lake High School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.