District Profile

Community

Situated 16 miles northwest of Detroit is the City of Mount Clemens, county seat of Macomb County.  Founded in 1818, Mount Clemens is a multicultural community of approximately 18,000 residents.  The Mount Clemens Community School District includes the City of Mount Clemens and a fractional portion of Clinton Township (approximately 6,000 residents) that has similar demographics.

Mount Clemens has a population of approximately 76 percent Caucasian, 20 percent African American and 1 percent each Hispanic and Native American, 2 percent other races.  The median age is 36.4 years with 12 percent of the population over 65 years of age, 71 percent being between the ages of 18-64 years and 17 percent being 17 years of age or younger.  The population is 48 percent female and 52 percent male.

The median household income is $45,907.  Out of Mount Clemens' total population of 17,312, approximately 3,400 are below the poverty level.  This represents an increase of 2% over the poverty level 10 years ago. The average education level in years of formal schooling is 12.8 years.  The proportion of adult residents in the community with at least a bachelor’s degree is estimated to be 11.4%.

The City has undergone massive changes in the past three decades primarily because of the shift from retail business to county services.  Ambitious efforts have revitalized the downtown business area and a new county building is being built.

An established community, Mount Clemens includes distinctive older neighborhoods, several diversified industries, two hospitals and a large number of churches, professional and county offices.

District

    District Mission Statement

The mission of the Mount Clemens Community Schools is to teach ALL students so that they achieve beyond expectations and meet the challenges of a diverse and rapidly changing world.

Adopted on July 8, 1991 by the Mount Clemens Board of Education

The District services students and residents of the City of Mount Clemens, portions of Clinton Township and Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township.

The predominately urban school community covers an area of four square miles.  Established as a school district in 1857, the District today has 3,200 students in grades pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.

The District employs 17 administrators, 240 teachers and 109 support staff.  It’s 2002-03 operating budget was $34,488,270.  It is governed by a publicly elected seven (7) member Board of Education.

The student body is racially and ethnically diverse.  Students come from households representing a broad range of social-economic levels including a large number who live in federally subsidized housing.  There are also a high number of transient students due to county social agency placement of needy families in affordable housing available in the District and the transition of military families at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.

Thirty-seven percent of the student enrollment is minority and 58% of the students qualify for the federal free or reduced lunch program.

The District operates one preschool center, four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school.  Such schools are: