Union City Middle School

Union City Middle School, a tight-knit middle school in UNION CITY, Michigan, operated by Union City Community Schools, enrolls 245 students, covering grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Union City Middle School sits 51% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Union City Community Schools, which oversees 3 schools and 909 students, Union City Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Union City Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school reports 7% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Branch County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Union City Middle School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Union City Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Union City Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.8%, the actual is 40.4%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Branch County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,724 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Branch County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,546 students), of which Union City Middle School is one.

Union City High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Union City Middle School has shrank 30%, going from 348 students in 2018 to 245 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 97% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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