Public school / High
Portage Northern High School
Portage, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 262895006493
- District
- Portage Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Portage Northern High School is a public high school in Portage, Michigan, run by Portage Public Schools. It enrols 1,252 students — the 5440th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.
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
1,252
Teachers
61.0
Students per teacher
20.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
30.7%
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.
Within Portage 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.
- 1Portage Central High School1,420 students
- 2Portage Northern High School1,252 students
- 3Portage Central Middle School740 students
- 4Portage West Middle School679 students
- 5Moorsbridge Elementary School608 students
- 612th Street Elementary574 students
- 7Portage North Middle School552 students
- 8Lake Center Elementary School529 students
- Enrollment+225.2%
- Teachers+177.3%
- Students per teacher+20.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−48.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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