Tawas Area Middle School

Tawas Area Middle School is a tight-knit middle-grades school in TAWAS CITY, Michigan, operated by Tawas Area Schools. The school hosts 340 students in grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Tawas Area Middle School sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Tawas Area Schools (1,124 students total), Tawas Area Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Tawas Area Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. Compared to Iosco County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Tawas Area Middle School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Iosco County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tawas Area Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.8%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Iosco County put the typical household earns roughly $50,066 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Iosco County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,497 students), Tawas Area Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Tawas Area High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tawas Area Middle School at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 40.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tawas Area Middle School has decreased 14%, going from 397 students in 2018 to 340 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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