Cole Academy East

Cole Academy East, a small elementary school in EAST LANSING, Michigan, overseen by Cole Academy, hosts 148 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 60% below the state mean of about 369.

Within Cole Academy, which oversees 2 schools and 303 students, Cole Academy East is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Cole Academy East logs that 30% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 26% Black, 12% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Clinton County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Clinton County's rate of about 30%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Clinton County) shows that median household income runs about $88,210, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clinton County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,640 students), of which Cole Academy East is one.

Post Oak School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cole Academy East.

The school occupies an inner-city site. Cole Academy East is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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