High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Forest Area High School, Fife Lake, MI

CEP schoolForest Area High School is a public high school in Fife Lake, part of Forest Area Community Schools. It enrolled 156 students in 2024-25, with 15.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 156
Teachers (FTE): 10.0
Students per teacher: 15.6
Grades: 9 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.5 higher than the district figure of 14.1. The Michigan average across schools is 16.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.6

District14.1

Michigan16.9

United States15.3

School details

Address: 7661 Shippy Rd SW, Fife Lake, MI 49633
Phone: (231)369-2884
District: Forest Area Community Schools
County: Kalkaska County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 261457005151

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 65
Reduced-price lunch: 5
Free or reduced-price lunch: 7044.9% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.