Houghton Elementary School

Houghton Elementary School is a K-5 school of well-populated scale in HOUGHTON, Michigan, part of Houghton-Portage Township School District, caters to 618 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Houghton Elementary School sits 67% larger than that benchmark.

Houghton-Portage Township School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,458 students. Houghton Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Houghton Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest comes out to 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Houghton Elementary School logs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Houghton County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Houghton Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Houghton County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,899, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Houghton Elementary School is one of 18 public schools in Houghton County (combined enrollment of about 5,267 students).

Nearest neighbor: Houghton Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Houghton Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Houghton Elementary School's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 661 (now 618). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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