Bauer Elementary School

Set in HUDSONVILLE, Michigan, Bauer Elementary School is an average-sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within Hudsonville Public School District. It enrolls 329 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Bauer Elementary School is one of 12 schools operated by Hudsonville Public School District, a district that instructs 6,654 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Bauer Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Bauer Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 14% of students at Bauer Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ottawa County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bauer Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 60.1%; Bauer Elementary School posts 81.5%, +21.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ottawa County indicate median household income runs about $90,502, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Bauer Elementary School is one of 103 public schools in Ottawa County (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students).

Baldwin Street Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bauer Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 63.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Bauer Elementary School's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 378 (now 329). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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