Clara B Bolen Elementary School

Clara B Bolen Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in TAWAS CITY, Michigan, operated by Tawas Area Schools, with 433 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Clara B Bolen Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Tawas Area Schools, a district that caters to 1,124 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Clara B Bolen Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Clara B Bolen Elementary School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Clara B Bolen Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Iosco County's rate of about 65%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clara B Bolen Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Iosco County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $50,066 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Iosco County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,497 students), of which Clara B Bolen Elementary School is one.

Tawas Area Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clara B Bolen Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clara B Bolen Elementary School has showed little movement, going from 440 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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