Summary:
Zip code 48612 is home to just one high school, Beaverton Junior/Senior High School, which serves grades 6 through 12 in the rural Beaverton Schools district, with 463 students and about 55% qualifying for free or reduced lunch.
For parents, the most important takeaway is that this school shows real strengths in the middle grades but struggles more with its youngest and oldest students. In the most recent testing year, 7th graders beat the state average in both math (47.4% proficient vs. 33.3%) and English (43.9% vs. 38.4%), while 8th and 9th graders also outperformed the state on PSAT reading and math. However, 6th grade English proficiency was just 18.8% compared to the state’s 37.5%, and 11th graders fell well short on SAT reading (43.1% vs. 52.1%) and math (19.6% vs. 26.5%). The school’s state ranking has been volatile, jumping from 552nd (1 star) in 2024-2025 to 311th (3 stars) in 2025-2026, which suggests the quality of a given cohort can swing results dramatically from year to year.
Beyond test scores, attendance is a major concern. Chronic absenteeism sits at 34.1%, well above the state’s 27.9%, and the dropout rate of 9.6% is significantly higher than the state’s 7.1%. The graduation rate of 84.3% is essentially on par with the state average. With a student-teacher ratio of 20.2:1 and per-student spending of $14,566, the school is investing meaningful resources, but the high absenteeism likely undermines consistency, especially in the upper grades. If your child is entering in 6th grade or heading into 11th, you may want to ask the school about targeted support, while families of 7th-9th graders may find the school is already delivering strong results relative to the rest of Michigan.
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