Edwardsburg Alternative Learning Center

Edwardsburg Alternative Learning Center is a senior high of rural-scale scale in EDWARDSBURG, Michigan, one of the schools within Edwardsburg Public Schools, enrolling 46 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Edwardsburg Alternative Learning Center sits 90% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in Edwardsburg Public Schools (2,519 students total), Edwardsburg Alternative Learning Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Edwardsburg Alternative Learning Center records that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Edwardsburg Alternative Learning Center has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 34.1:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cass County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cass County) logs that median household earnings sit near $70,443, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cass County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,258 students), of which Edwardsburg Alternative Learning Center is one.

Edwardsburg High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.