Bear Lake, MI schools
Bear Lake’s public schools score close to Michigan’s averages: 47% of students are proficient in reading against 47.9% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 82.9%. Kids attend Onekama Consolidated Schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Bear Lake’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Bear Lake’s kids attend outperform 52% of Michigan’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Michigan’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Michigan only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Michigan with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Bear Lake kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well below the state in reading
95% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Two districts serve Bear Lake
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Bear Lake
There’s no college in Bear Lake, but 1 college is within 30 miles. The closest is West Shore Community College in Victory, 27.7 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Bear Lake. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 3 schools in Bear Lake
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Bear Lake kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Bear Lake’s district that are located in Onekama.