Hughes Elementary School

Set in MARSHALL, Michigan, Hughes Elementary School is a small K-5 school, overseen by Marshall Public Schools. It enrolls 261 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 369.

Marshall Public Schools runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,598 students. Hughes Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Hughes Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest looks like 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Hughes Elementary School logs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Calhoun County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hughes Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 46.1%; Hughes Elementary School posts 62.0%, +15.9 points above that line.

Across the wider county, Calhoun County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,177, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Hughes Elementary School is one of 56 public schools in Calhoun County (combined enrollment of about 18,982 students).

The closest other public school is Marshall Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hughes Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Hughes Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 308 (now 261). The White share of enrollment contracted from 86% to 81% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Hughes Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.