Chestnut Hill Elementary School

Chestnut Hill Elementary School is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in MIDLAND, Michigan, run under Midland Public Schools, with 416 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Midland Public Schools runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,380 students. Chestnut Hill Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Chestnut Hill Elementary School records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Midland County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chestnut Hill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 40.4%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Midland County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,705, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chestnut Hill Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in Midland County (combined enrollment of about 11,324 students).

Nearest neighbor: Northeast Middle School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chestnut Hill Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Chestnut Hill Elementary School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 416 students in 2018 compared to 416 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 81% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.