Public school / Middle
Ring Lardner Middle School
Niles, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 262556006208
- District
- Niles Community Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ring Lardner Middle School is a public middle school in Niles, Michigan, run by Niles Community Schools. It enrols 554 students — the 31166th 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
554
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
21.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
66.2%
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 Niles Community 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.
- 1Niles Senior High School834 students
- 2Howardellis Elementary School591 students
- 3Ring Lardner Middle School554 students
- 4Ballard Elementary School538 students
- 5Eastside Connections School432 students
- 6Way Niles126 students
- 7Niles Cedar Lane112 students
- 8Southside Special Educ School36 students
- Enrollment+43.9%
- Teachers+18.2%
- Students per teacher+25.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+11.6%
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