Blue Star Elementary School

Blue Star Elementary School is one of the low-enrollment elementary campuss in HOLLAND, Michigan, run under Hamilton Community Schools, with 202 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Blue Star Elementary School sits 45% smaller than that benchmark.

Hamilton Community Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,567 students. Blue Star Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Blue Star Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Blue Star Elementary School has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Blue Star Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 52.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Allegan County put median household income runs about $83,283, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Allegan County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,174 students), of which Blue Star Elementary School is one.

Hamilton High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Blue Star Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 50.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 17%: 242 students in 2018 compared to 202 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 90% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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