Blissfield Elementary

Blissfield Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in BLISSFIELD, Michigan, run under Blissfield Community Schools. Current enrollment sits at 528 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% bigger than the state mean of about 369.

Across the 3 schools in Blissfield Community Schools (1,111 students total), Blissfield Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Blissfield Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Blissfield Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lenawee County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Blissfield Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.9%; Blissfield Elementary posts 33.4%, -17.5 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lenawee County indicate median household earnings sit near $70,518, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lenawee County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,256 students), Blissfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Blissfield High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Blissfield Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Blissfield Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 37.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Blissfield Elementary's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 512 (now 528). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.