Fern Persons Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in OLIVET, Michigan, Fern Persons Elementary School enrolls 374 students from grades pre-K through 3, one of the schools within Olivet Community Schools.

Fern Persons Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Olivet Community Schools, a district that enrolls 1,239 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Fern Persons Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school records 2% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at Fern Persons Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Fern Persons Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Eaton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,597 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Fern Persons Elementary School is one of 47 public schools in Eaton County (combined enrollment of about 17,025 students).

Nearest neighbor: Olivet High School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fern Persons Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fern Persons Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 368 students in 2018 to 374 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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