Walled Lake Northern High School

Located at 6000 BOGIE LAKE RD, in COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, Michigan, Walled Lake Northern High School is a roomy senior high that works with 1,383 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Walled Lake Consolidated Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Walled Lake Northern High School sits 201% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 19 schools in Walled Lake Consolidated Schools (11,640 students total), Walled Lake Northern High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Walled Lake Northern High School records that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Walled Lake Northern High School has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 17% of students at Walled Lake Northern High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

Around the school, Oakland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Walled Lake Northern High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Commerce Elementary School, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Walled Lake Northern High School.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Walled Lake Northern High School's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 1,620 (now 1,383).

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