ClimaxScotts Elementary School

As a close-knit elementary campus in SCOTTS, Michigan, ClimaxScotts Elementary School caters to 234 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Climax-Scotts Community Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 37% below the state mean of about 369.

Climax-Scotts Community Schools runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 650 students. ClimaxScotts Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ClimaxScotts Elementary School lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting ClimaxScotts Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kalamazoo County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ClimaxScotts Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.4%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kalamazoo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,532 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Kalamazoo County's 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students), ClimaxScotts Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

ClimaxScotts Virtual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around ClimaxScotts Elementary School. On composite proficiency, ClimaxScotts Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. ClimaxScotts Elementary School's enrollment has grew 10% since 2018, when it stood at 213 (now 234). Over the same period, the White share grew from 84% to 89%. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.