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Vicksburg High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Vicksburg High School
Vicksburg High School is one of the large four-year high schools in VICKSBURG, Michigan, part of Vicksburg Community Schools, with 724 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 57% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 460 students.
Vicksburg High School is one of 6 schools operated by Vicksburg Community Schools, a district that teaches 2,560 students overall.
On demographics, Vicksburg High School logs that nearly all students (88%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Kalamazoo County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Kalamazoo County's rate of about 45%.
In the area at large, census data for Kalamazoo County shows median household earnings sit near $72,532, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Kalamazoo County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students), of which Vicksburg High School is one.
The closest other public school is Vicksburg Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vicksburg High School has fell 5%, going from 761 students in 2018 to 724 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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