Surline Middle School

Surline Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in WEST BRANCH, Michigan, part of West Branch-Rose City Area Schools. The school educates 580 students in grades 5 through 8.

Surline Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by West Branch-Rose City Area Schools, a district that educates 1,844 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Surline Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest looks like 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Ogemaw County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Surline Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.6%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ogemaw County indicate median household income runs about $54,666, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Ogemaw County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,972 students), of which Surline Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Surline Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

Surline Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Surline Middle School has changed only slightly, going from 566 students in 2018 to 580 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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