Central Park Elementary School

Central Park Elementary School is one of the high-enrollment elementary schools in MIDLAND, Michigan, one of the schools within Midland Public Schools, with 646 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 75% larger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Midland Public Schools comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 7,380 students; Central Park Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Central Park Elementary School records that 78% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 62% of students at Central Park Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Midland County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Central Park Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.7%; this one delivers 46.8%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Midland County put the typical household earns roughly $77,705 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Central Park Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in Midland County (combined enrollment of about 11,324 students).

Nearest neighbor: Post Secondary Transition Program, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Central Park Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Central Park Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central Park Elementary School has ticked down 20%, going from 812 students in 2018 to 646 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 87% to 78%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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