Cedarville School

Cedarville School is a combined-grade school of modestly sized scale in CEDARVILLE, Michigan, one of the schools within Les Cheneaux Community Schools, works with 219 students in grades pre-K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 281 students per school, that is 22% below typical.

Operationally, Cedarville School answers to Les Cheneaux Community Schools, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Cedarville School shows that 62% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 29% Native American, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Mackinac County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at Cedarville School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Mackinac County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cedarville School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 60.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Mackinac County put the typical household earns roughly $63,909 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Mackinac County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,091 students), Cedarville School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pickford Public Schools, roughly 10.8 miles away. On composite proficiency, Cedarville School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedarville School has edged down 6%, going from 234 students in 2018 to 219 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 62% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Cedarville School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.