Summary:
Zip code 49015 is home to just one middle school, Lakeview Middle School, part of the Lakeview School District (Calhoun), which serves grades 5 through 8 and has a large enrollment of 1,082 students in a community where a majority of families face economic challenges.
Lakeview Middle School is a sizable school with a student-teacher ratio of 15.7:1, which allows for relatively manageable class sizes. The school has a high poverty rate, with 60.44% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch, and it invests significantly in its students at $14,725 per pupil. Academically, the school shows a mixed picture. In English Language Arts, 5th graders are close to the state average (38.7% vs. 43.8%), but proficiency declines as students get older, with 7th graders falling 7.4 points behind the state. Math is a more consistent weakness across all grades, with 8th graders scoring particularly low on the PSAT 8/9 at just 24.3% proficiency compared to the state's 33.2%. Science and social studies scores are also generally below state averages, though 5th graders do outperform the state in social studies (29.2% vs. 27.5%).
One of the most striking findings is the large gap between subjects on the 8th-grade PSAT: students nearly match the state in ELA (64.3% vs. 64.8%) but lag far behind in math, suggesting a specific challenge with math instruction rather than overall student ability. Chronic absenteeism affects 25.7% of students, which is slightly better than the state average of 27.9%. Despite these academic hurdles, the school has shown a positive trajectory in its state ranking, improving from the 44th percentile in 2023-2024 to the 51st percentile in 2025-2026, earning a 3-star rating. This upward trend suggests that while there is room for growth, particularly in math and upper-grade literacy, the school is making progress relative to others across the state.
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