Yale Junior High School

As a small intermediate school in YALE, Michigan, Yale Junior High School instructs 425 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Yale Public Schools.

Yale Public Schools runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,723 students. Yale Junior High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Yale Junior High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school shows 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Yale Junior High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Clair County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Yale Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Clair County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,270 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across St. Clair County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,511 students), Yale Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Yale Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Yale Junior High School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yale Junior High School has fell 5%, going from 449 students in 2018 to 425 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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