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Public school / Middle

Benzie Central Middle School

Benzonia, Michigan

NCES ID
260495000801
District
Benzie County Central Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Benzie Central Middle School is a public middle school in Benzonia, Michigan, run by Benzie County Central Schools. It enrols 264 students — the 70484th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

264students

70484th nationally, tied with 139

Teachers

16.0FTE

73651st nationally, tied with 1,867

Students per teacher

16.5students

60758th nationally, tied with 785

Free or reduced-price lunch

73.9%percent

27359th nationally, tied with 81

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Benzie County Central Schools

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Benzie Central Sr High School348 students
  2. 2Benzie Central Middle School264 students
  3. 3Lake Ann Elementary School210 students
  4. 4Crystal Lake Elementary School202 students
  5. 5Betsie Valley School136 students
  6. 6Benzie Academy70 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Michigan median across 3,559 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−31.4%
  • Teachers−27.3%
  • Students per teacher−2.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+24.6%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.