Dudley School

Dudley School operates as a tiny primary school in BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, one of the schools within Battle Creek Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 117 students spanning grades pre-K through 2. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Dudley School sits 68% below that benchmark.

Across the 13 schools in Battle Creek Public Schools (3,796 students total), Dudley School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Dudley School records that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 20% White, 19% multiracial, 12% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 10% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Dudley School lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at Dudley School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Calhoun County's rate of about 56%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Calhoun County) logs that median household earnings sit near $63,177, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Calhoun County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,982 students), of which Dudley School is one.

Northwestern Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Dudley School's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 145 (now 117). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 61% to 48% over that span.

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