Cherry Knoll Elementary School

Located at 1800 3 MILE RD N, in TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan, Cherry Knoll Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school that teaches 333 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Traverse City Area Public Schools.

Traverse City Area Public Schools comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 8,546 students; Cherry Knoll Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cherry Knoll Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Native American.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Cherry Knoll Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Cherry Knoll Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.1%; this one delivers 43.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Grand Traverse County) records that median household income runs about $81,647, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Grand Traverse County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,069 students), of which Cherry Knoll Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is East Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cherry Knoll Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Cherry Knoll Elementary School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cherry Knoll Elementary School has decreased 22%, going from 429 students in 2018 to 333 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 90% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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