Haverhill Elementary School

Set in PORTAGE, Michigan, Haverhill Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school, run under Portage Public Schools. It serves 378 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Portage Public Schools, which oversees 14 schools and 8,479 students, Haverhill Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Haverhill Elementary School shows that 61% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 15% multiracial, 11% Black, 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the resource side, On paper, Haverhill Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Haverhill Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at Haverhill Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Haverhill Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.8%.

Around the school, Kalamazoo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,532 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Haverhill Elementary School is one of 93 public schools in Kalamazoo County (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students).

The closest other public school is Oakland Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Haverhill Elementary School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 50.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Haverhill Elementary School has ticked down 3%, going from 391 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 67% to 61%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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