Thompson Middle School

Thompson Middle School runs as a medium-sized middle school in SAGINAW, Michigan. It enrolled 585 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year.

Saginaw School District of the City of includes 17 schools. Together they enroll 5,382 students.

Black students are the majority at Thompson Middle School, with 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% White, 16% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 19% Black. Thompson Middle School's diversity index is 58%, against a US figure of 70%.

Thompson Middle School employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 21.7:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 17.5:1 average for middle schools in Michigan. Thompson Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 91%. Public schools in Saginaw County average 59%.

Saginaw County has about 188,665 residents, and the median household income is $60,622, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 14%. In all, Saginaw County has 75 public schools and roughly 25,621 students.

Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

Federal records list enrollment at Thompson Middle School as 401 in 2020-21 and 585 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (21.7:1) than in 2020-21 (16.7:1).

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