Spring Lake Intermediate School

Located at 345 HAMMOND ST, in SPRING LAKE, Michigan, Spring Lake Intermediate School is a small middle school that serves 330 students (grades 5 through 9), run under Spring Lake Public Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Spring Lake Intermediate School sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Spring Lake Public Schools, which oversees 6 schools and 2,271 students, Spring Lake Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Spring Lake Intermediate School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest consists of 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Spring Lake Intermediate School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ottawa County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Spring Lake Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.5%; this one delivers 68.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Ottawa County shows median household earnings sit near $90,502, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ottawa County runs 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students), of which Spring Lake Intermediate School is one.

Spring Lake Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spring Lake Intermediate School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spring Lake Intermediate School at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 61.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Spring Lake Intermediate School's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 392 (now 330). Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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