Hopkins Elementary School

Hopkins Elementary School, an average-sized elementary campus in HOPKINS, Michigan, one of the schools within Hopkins Public Schools, instructs 393 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 4 schools in Hopkins Public Schools (1,415 students total), Hopkins Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Hopkins Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Allegan County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hopkins Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Allegan County put median household earnings sit near $83,283, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Allegan County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,174 students), of which Hopkins Elementary School is one.

Hopkins Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Hopkins Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Hopkins Elementary School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Hopkins Elementary School's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 445 (now 393). Class-load math has fell: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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