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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Way Niles

Niles, Michigan

NCES ID
262556008282
School type
Alternative
Title I
Not designated

Way Niles is a public high school in Niles, Michigan, run by Niles Community Schools. It enrols 126 students — the 84994th 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

126students

84994th nationally, tied with 82

Free or reduced-price lunch

71.4%percent

29617th nationally, tied with 122

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.

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 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Niles Senior High School834 students
  2. 2Howardellis Elementary School591 students
  3. 3Ring Lardner Middle School554 students
  4. 4Ballard Elementary School538 students
  5. 5Eastside Connections School432 students
  6. 6Way Niles126 students
  7. 7Niles Cedar Lane112 students
  8. 8Southside Special Educ School36 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−67.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+20.4%
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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.