Public school / High
Walled Lake Western High School
Commerce Township, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 263516007084
- District
- Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Walled Lake Western High School is a public high school in Commerce Township, Michigan, run by Walled Lake Consolidated Schools. It enrols 1,133 students — the 6627th 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
1,133
Teachers
59.0
Students per teacher
19.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
33.5%
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 Walled Lake Consolidated 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.
- 1Walled Lake Northern High School1,485 students
- 2Walled Lake Central High School1,194 students
- 3Walled Lake Western High School1,133 students
- 4Clifford H Smart Middle School934 students
- 5Walnut Creek Middle School655 students
- 6Meadowbrook Elementary School570 students
- 7James R Geisler Middle School562 students
- 8Commerce Elementary School561 students
- Enrollment+194.3%
- Teachers+168.2%
- Students per teacher+12.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−43.5%
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