Cumberland School

Cumberland School is a tight-knit K-5 school in LANSING, Michigan, overseen by Lansing Public School District. The school educates 308 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Lansing Public School District runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 10,048 students. Cumberland School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Cumberland School shows that the largest single group is Black at 36%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 21% White, 18% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 12% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

In terms of school funding signals, Cumberland School logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Cumberland School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ingham County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Ingham County put the typical household earns roughly $65,526 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cumberland School is one of 100 public schools in Ingham County (combined enrollment of about 37,914 students).

Nearest neighbor: Windemere Park Charter Academy, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cumberland School.

Cumberland School operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cumberland School has increased 18%, going from 260 students in 2018 to 308 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 48% to 36%.

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