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Enrollment
329
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUDSONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 261884005560
Bauer Elementary School
8136 48TH AVE, HUDSONVILLE, MI 49426 · (616) 669-6824 · Ottawa County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL329 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Michigan public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
46 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 55%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 82 | 25% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 26% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 6% smaller than its 4th grade class (87).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Bauer Elementary School→56 Building at Georgetown→Baldwin Street Middle School→Hudsonville High School
Based on grade levels within Hudsonville Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
82.2%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
80.2%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
81.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.1%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Michigan's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bauer Elementary School
Bauer Elementary School's state test result (81.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bauer Elementary School this school | 329 | 14.0% | 81.5% |
| Kettle Lake Elementary School ALTO | 349 | 12.0% | 81.5% |
| Valley View Elementary School ROCKFORD | 336 | 15.5% | 75.1% |
| Paris Ridge Elementary CALEDONIA | 303 | 16.2% | 73.9% |
| Oxford Elementary School OXFORD | 340 | 10.9% | 50.3% |
| Meridian Elementary School GROSSE ILE | 313 | 17.3% | 61.7% |
Matched among Michigan elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bauer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Ottawa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.5% | #7 of 1,085 | #1 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.2% | #19 of 1,072 | #5 of 47 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #10 of 1,139 | #1 of 49 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 329 | #970 of 1,630 | #30 of 54 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #140 of 1,424 | #18 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.5% | #934 of 1,424 | #42 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.0% | #1,470 of 1,563 | #52 of 54 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.0% | #479 of 979 | #26 of 38 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
329
-52 (-14%) vs 2020
+63% since 1990-91, when it was 202
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 14.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 329 | 25.5 | 12.9:1 | 14% (46) |
| 2023-24 | 351 | 26.1 | 13.4:1 | 24% (85) |
| 2022-23 | 421 | 28 | 15.1:1 | 17% (73) |
| 2020-21 | 381 | 27 | 14.1:1 | 19% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 378 | 22 | 17.1:1 | 20% (76) |
| 2015-16 | 374 | 21 | 17.8:1 | 21% (77) |
| 2010-11 | 331 | 18 | 18.4:1 | 19% (64) |
| 2000-01 | 532 | 24 | 22.2:1 | 6% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 202 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bauer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (378 to 329); teachers up 16% (22 to 25.5).
About Bauer Elementary School
Bauer Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in HUDSONVILLE, Michigan, (ZIP code 49426). It offers pre-K through 4 and has 329 students enrolled.
Hudsonville Public School District has 12 schools and 6,654 students, and Bauer Elementary School is one of those schools.
By race and ethnicity, Bauer Elementary School is 86% White. The next largest groups are 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. In Ottawa County overall, the White share is about 84%. A diversity index of 25% means there is a 25% chance two randomly chosen students at Bauer Elementary School are from different groups.
Bauer Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1, with 25.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Michigan is 15.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 14% at Bauer Elementary School. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Ottawa County is 34%.
On the allk12 Grade, Bauer Elementary School lands at A+, ahead of 99% of Michigan public elementary schools.
Bauer Elementary School is 21.5 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Michigan.
American Community Survey estimates for Ottawa County show that the median household earns about $90,502 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Ottawa County has 103 public schools with about 42,894 students, including Bauer Elementary School.
Bauer Elementary School is about 1.2 miles from Baldwin Street Middle School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Bauer Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 329, compared with 381 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 14.1 in 2020-21 to 12.9 in 2024-25.
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Ottawa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
301,203
Census ACS
Median income
$90,502
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
103
42,894 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hudsonville Public School District
- Hudsonville High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Riley Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 688 students
- 56 Building at GeorgetownMiddle · 626 students
- Baldwin Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 610 students
- Georgetown Elementary SchoolElementary · 450 students
- Alward Elementary SchoolElementary · 435 students
Other schools in HUDSONVILLE
- Hudsonville High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Riley Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 688 students
- 56 Building at GeorgetownMiddle · 626 students
- Baldwin Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 610 students
- Georgetown Elementary SchoolElementary · 450 students
- Alward Elementary SchoolElementary · 435 students
Nearby schools
- Baldwin Street Middle School1.2 mi · 610
- Georgetown Elementary School1.2 mi · 450
- 56 Building at Georgetown1.3 mi · 626
- El Puente Spanish Immersion2.4 mi · 380
- Jenison Public Schools Early Childhood Center2.4 mi · 189
- Alward Elementary School2.4 mi · 435
Frequently asked questions
About Bauer Elementary SchoolHow large is Bauer Elementary School?
Bauer Elementary School enrolls approximately 329 students in grades PK-04.
Is Bauer Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bauer Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does Bauer Elementary School have?
Bauer Elementary School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
How diverse is Bauer Elementary School?
Bauer Elementary School reports a student body of 86% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Bauer Elementary School public or private?
Bauer Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hudsonville Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.