Algonac Alternative Education

As an one-room-style secondary school in CLAY, Michigan, Algonac Alternative Education educates 19 students from grades 7 through 12, run under Algonac Community School District. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Algonac Alternative Education sits 96% smaller than that benchmark.

Algonac Community School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,287 students; Algonac Alternative Education is among them.

In terms of who attends, Algonac Alternative Education reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest comes out to 5% Native American. Compared to St. Clair County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above St. Clair County's rate of about 46%.

Across the wider county, census data for St. Clair County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,270 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Clair County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,511 students), of which Algonac Alternative Education is one.

Algonac JuniorSenior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. Algonac Alternative Education delivers learning online rather than in a traditional classroom setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Algonac Alternative Education has held roughly steady, going from 19 students in 2018 to 19 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 5% to 0%.

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