Escanaba Upper Elementary

As an average-sized primary school in ESCANABA, Michigan, Escanaba Upper Elementary serves 426 students from grades 3 through 5, one of the schools within Escanaba Area Public Schools.

Escanaba Area Public Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,130 students; Escanaba Upper Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Escanaba Upper Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Beyond that, the school lists 5% multiracial, 3% Native American, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Escanaba Upper Elementary reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 59% of students at Escanaba Upper Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Delta County's rate of about 47%.

With demographic context factored in, Escanaba Upper Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.2%; this one delivers 46.2%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Delta County indicate median household income runs about $57,809, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Delta County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,382 students), of which Escanaba Upper Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lemmer Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Escanaba Upper Elementary. On composite proficiency, Escanaba Upper Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

Escanaba Upper Elementary operates from a town-based location.

Looking at the recent track record. Escanaba Upper Elementary's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 504 (now 426). Class-load math has tightened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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