Public school / Middle
West Middle School
Traverse City, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 263387006948
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West Middle School is a public middle school in Traverse City, Michigan, run by Traverse City Area Public Schools. It enrols 1,081 students — the 7280th 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
1,081
Teachers
53.0
Students per teacher
20.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
38.3%
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 Traverse City Area 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.
- 1West Senior High1,509 students
- 2Central High School1,387 students
- 3West Middle School1,081 students
- 4East Middle School786 students
- 5Central Grade School516 students
- 6Eastern Elementary School454 students
- 7Willow Hill Elementary School421 students
- 8Westwoods Elementary School368 students
- Enrollment+180.8%
- Teachers+140.9%
- Students per teacher+20.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−35.4%
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