Henry Niedermeier Elementary School

Located at 8400 NEWPORT SOUTH RD, in NEWPORT, Michigan, Henry Niedermeier Elementary School is an intimate K-5 school that caters to 242 students (grades pre-K through 4), one of the schools within Airport Community Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 34% leaner than the state mean of about 369.

Airport Community Schools runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 2,849 students. Henry Niedermeier Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Henry Niedermeier Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Monroe County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Monroe County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Henry Niedermeier Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of +8.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Monroe County shows median household income runs about $77,335, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Henry Niedermeier Elementary School is one of 52 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 20,286 students).

North Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Henry Niedermeier Elementary School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

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