St Clair Middle School

St Clair Middle School, a reasonably sized junior high in SAINT CLAIR, Michigan, overseen by East China School District, teaches 614 students, covering grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 502 students per school, that is 22% larger than typical.

East China School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,405 students; St Clair Middle School is among them.

Demographically, St Clair Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder breaks down as 2% Black, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, St Clair Middle School lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 31% of students at St Clair Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against St. Clair County (around 46%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), St Clair Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 52.6%; St Clair Middle School posts 39.7%, -12.9 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Clair County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,270 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. St Clair Middle School is one of 57 public schools in St. Clair County (combined enrollment of about 20,511 students).

Nearest neighbor: Gearing Elementary School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around St Clair Middle School. On composite proficiency, St Clair Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.7%.

St Clair Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at St Clair Middle School has climbed 3%, going from 594 students in 2018 to 614 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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