Vandercook Lake High School

Vandercook Lake High School, a small high school, is located in JACKSON, Michigan. Enrollment stands at 258 students, covering grades 7 through 12. That is 44% below the average of about 460 students for high schools in Michigan.

Vandercook Lake Public Schools counts 629 students in its 3 schools, and Vandercook Lake High School is one of them.

At Vandercook Lake High School, 76% of students are White. Smaller groups are 12% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 5% Black. The diversity index for Vandercook Lake High School is 40%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Vandercook Lake High School lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.6 students per teacher. The gap from the 21.6:1 average for high schools in Michigan is 8.0 students per teacher. About 73% of students at Vandercook Lake High School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 20 points above the 53% average for public schools in Jackson County.

Census data for Jackson County show median household income comes to about $66,073, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. There are 68 public schools in the county, enrolling about 21,681, Vandercook Lake High School among them.

Vandercook Lake Virtual Academy sits less than a tenth of a mile from Vandercook Lake High School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Vandercook Lake High School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels Suburb: Small.

A 28% decline took enrollment from 358 in 2020-21 to 258 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.6:1) than in 2020-21 (19.9:1).

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