Grayling Elementary School

Located at 306 PLUM ST, in GRAYLING, Michigan, Grayling Elementary School is a heavily attended elementary-level community that enrolls 624 students (grades pre-K through 4), part of Crawford AuSable Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Grayling Elementary School sits 69% above that benchmark.

Within Crawford AuSable Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 1,640 students, Grayling Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Grayling Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grayling Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.5%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Crawford County shows median household income runs about $60,392, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Crawford County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,659 students), of which Grayling Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Grayling Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grayling Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grayling Elementary School has contracted 12%, going from 709 students in 2018 to 624 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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