Wyoming Junior High School

Wyoming Junior High School is a middle school of mid-tier scale in WYOMING, Michigan, operated by Wyoming Public Schools, hosting 584 students in grades 7 through 8.

Wyoming Public Schools comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,767 students; Wyoming Junior High School is among them.

Demographically, Wyoming Junior High School logs that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 25% White, 18% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at Wyoming Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Kent County reports that median household earnings sit near $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Wyoming Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Parkview Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 34%: 890 students in 2018 compared to 584 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 31% to 25%.

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