Wayland High School

Wayland High School, a high-enrollment secondary school in WAYLAND, Michigan, overseen by Wayland Union Schools, works with 800 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% larger than the state mean of about 460.

Across the 7 schools in Wayland Union Schools (2,708 students total), Wayland High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Wayland High School lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Allegan County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 28% of students at Wayland High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Allegan County's rate of about 43%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Allegan County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,283 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Allegan County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,174 students), Wayland High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Career Connections Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Wayland High School.

Wayland High School operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Wayland High School's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 837 (now 800). The White share of enrollment edged down from 90% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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