Cass City Elementary

Set in CASS CITY, Michigan, Cass City Elementary is a moderately sized primary school, run under Cass City Public Schools. It teaches 459 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Cass City Elementary sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

Cass City Public Schools comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 877 students; Cass City Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Cass City Elementary shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 56% of students at Cass City Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cass City Elementary sits in the top 10% of Michigan schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 41.3%; actual is 54.9%, +13.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Tuscola County) records that median household earnings sit near $63,811, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Tuscola County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,459 students), of which Cass City Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cass City Jr and Sr High School, around 0.3 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cass City Elementary at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 50.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Cass City Elementary's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 539 (now 459). Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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