Central Elementary School

Set in MUSKEGON, Michigan, Central Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, run under Reeths-Puffer Schools. It hosts 428 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Across the 7 schools in Reeths-Puffer Schools (3,395 students total), Central Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Central Elementary School reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 41% 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, Muskegon County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Central Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.0%; actual is 36.2%, a gap of -11.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Muskegon County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,024 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Muskegon County's 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,245 students), Central Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ReethsPuffer Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Central Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.1%.

Central Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 5%: 409 students in 2018 compared to 428 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 86% to 82%.

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