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Churchill Elementary School
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Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Churchill Elementary School
As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in MUSKEGON, Michigan, Churchill Elementary School serves 414 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Mona Shores Public School District.
Across the 6 schools in Mona Shores Public School District (3,927 students total), Churchill Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Churchill Elementary School records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 6% Black, 5% Hispanic.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Churchill Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Muskegon County (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Churchill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of +0.3 points.
In the broader community, Muskegon County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,024 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Muskegon County runs 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,245 students), of which Churchill Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Ross Park Elementary School, around 1.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Churchill Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Five-year trend. Churchill Elementary School's enrollment has grew 10% since 2018, when it stood at 376 (now 414). Class-load math has tightened: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.
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