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Ida High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Ida High School
Located at 3145 PRAIRIE ST, in IDA, Michigan, Ida High School is a mid-tier 9-12 campus that works with 451 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Ida Public School District.
Within Ida Public School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,432 students, Ida High School is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, Ida High School logs that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 2% Hispanic.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Monroe County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,335 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Ida High School is one of 52 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 20,286 students).
The closest other public school is Ida Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Ida High School.
The school occupies a rural site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Ida High School's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 495 (now 451). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.
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