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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Ernest W Seaholm High School

Birmingham, Michigan

NCES ID
260585004217
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Ernest W Seaholm High School is a public high school in Birmingham, Michigan, run by Birmingham Public Schools. It enrols 1,215 students — the 5773rd 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

1,215students

5773rd nationally, tied with 16

Teachers

81.0FTE

4729th nationally, tied with 148

Students per teacher

15.0students

47506th nationally, tied with 1,037

Free or reduced-price lunch

8.4%percent

83937th nationally, tied with 33

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 Birmingham Public 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. 1Ernest W Seaholm High School1,215 students
  2. 2Wylie E Groves High School1,110 students
  3. 3Berkshire Middle School655 students
  4. 4Birmingham Covington School637 students
  5. 5Derby Middle School626 students
  6. 6West Maple Elementary School513 students
  7. 7Pierce Elementary School478 students
  8. 8Harlan Elementary School374 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+215.6%
  • Teachers+268.2%
  • Students per teacher−11.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−85.8%
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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.