Avoca Elementary School

Located at 8751 WILLOW ST, in KENOCKEE, Michigan, Avoca Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus that educates 243 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Yale Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 34% smaller than typical.

Yale Public Schools runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,723 students. Avoca Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Avoca Elementary School lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with St. Clair County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Avoca Elementary School shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at Avoca Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of St. Clair County's rate of about 46%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Avoca Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.5%; this one delivers 51.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Clair County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,270 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across St. Clair County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,511 students), Avoca Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is John F FarrellEmmett Elementary School, roughly 5.8 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Avoca Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Avoca Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 267 (now 243). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 96% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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