Ezra Eby Elementary School

Located at 220 WEST, in NAPOLEON, Michigan, Ezra Eby Elementary School is a substantial primary school that caters to 564 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Napoleon Community Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Ezra Eby Elementary School sits 53% larger than that benchmark.

Napoleon Community Schools comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,290 students; Ezra Eby Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Ezra Eby Elementary School reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Ezra Eby Elementary School reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jackson County (around 53%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Ezra Eby Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.2%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -5.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Jackson County) records that the typical household earns roughly $66,073 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Ezra Eby Elementary School is one of 68 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 21,681 students).

Nearest neighbor: Napoleon Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Ezra Eby Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ezra Eby Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.6%.

Ezra Eby Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 582 students in 2018 compared to 564 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.