Hunt Elementary School

Hunt Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school found in JACKSON, Michigan. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 366 students.

The district, Jackson Public Schools, operates 12 schools serving 4,310 students.

By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Hunt Elementary School is Black (33%). Other students are 32% White, 23% multiracial, and 10% Hispanic. That is higher than the 7% Black share among all Jackson County residents. Hunt Elementary School has a diversity index of 72%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.

At Hunt Elementary School, 27 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 13.6:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Michigan average 15.8:1. Roughly 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Jackson County averages 53%, lower than here.

County data help place the school in context: in Jackson County, median household income is about $66,073, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Hunt Elementary School is among the 68 public schools in Jackson County.

The school nearest to Hunt Elementary School is South Central Michigan Virtual, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

The 2024-25 enrollment of 366 was 5% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 384. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 13.6:1, from 17.4:1.

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