Appleview Elementary School

Located at 240 E SPARTAN DR, in SPARTA, Michigan, Appleview Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that educates 517 students (grades 3 through 5), overseen by Sparta Area Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Appleview Elementary School sits 40% above that benchmark.

Appleview Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Sparta Area Schools, a district that serves 2,353 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Appleview Elementary School reports that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 14% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Appleview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.2%, the actual is 44.6%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the area at large, Kent County reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Appleview Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sparta Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Appleview Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Appleview Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 575 (now 517). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Appleview Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.