Alternative Educational Academy of Ogemaw County

Alternative Educational Academy of Ogemaw County is a four-year high school of micro-enrollment scale in WEST BRANCH, Michigan, operated by Alternative Educational Academy of Ogemaw County, teacheing 128 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Alternative Educational Academy of Ogemaw County sits 72% smaller than that benchmark.

Operationally, Alternative Educational Academy of Ogemaw County answers to Alternative Educational Academy of Ogemaw County, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Alternative Educational Academy of Ogemaw County lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ogemaw County (around 65%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Ogemaw County shows median household income runs about $54,666, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Alternative Educational Academy of Ogemaw County is one of 5 public schools in Ogemaw County (combined enrollment of about 1,972 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ogemaw Heights High School, around 3.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The campus sits in a small-town setting. Alternative Educational Academy of Ogemaw County is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 22%: 105 students in 2018 compared to 128 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 35.0:1 in 2018 to 26.3:1 today.

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