Walnut Creek Middle School

Walnut Creek Middle School operates as a mid-sized intermediate school in WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan, overseen by Walled Lake Consolidated Schools. Current enrollment sits at 641 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 28% bigger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 502 students.

Walled Lake Consolidated Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 11,640 students. Walnut Creek Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Walnut Creek Middle School shows that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 10% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Walnut Creek Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Oakland County) logs that median household earnings sit near $97,760, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Walnut Creek Middle School is one of 345 public schools in Oakland County (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pleasant Lake Elementary School, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Walnut Creek Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Walnut Creek Middle School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 55.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walnut Creek Middle School has contracted 10%, going from 711 students in 2018 to 641 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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