Wagar Junior High School

Wagar Junior High School is a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in CARLETON, Michigan, one of the schools within Airport Community Schools. The school caters to 641 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Wagar Junior High School sits 28% above that benchmark.

Wagar Junior High School is one of 9 schools operated by Airport Community Schools, a district that enrolls 2,849 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Wagar Junior High School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Wagar Junior High School shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at Wagar Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wagar Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.6%; this one delivers 35.6%.

Across the wider county, Monroe County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,335, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Wagar Junior High School is one of 52 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 20,286 students).

The closest other public school is Wagar Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wagar Junior High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

Wagar Junior High School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Wagar Junior High School's enrollment has rose 67% since 2018, when it stood at 383 (now 641).

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