Indian Prairie Elementary School

Indian Prairie Elementary School operates as a tight-knit elementary campus in KALAMAZOO, Michigan, operated by Kalamazoo Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 169 students spanning grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Indian Prairie Elementary School sits 54% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 26 schools in Kalamazoo Public Schools (12,227 students total), Indian Prairie Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Indian Prairie Elementary School shows that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 30% Black, 15% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Indian Prairie Elementary School has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at Indian Prairie Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Indian Prairie Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 54.8%, a residual of +9.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Kalamazoo County shows median household income runs about $72,532, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kalamazoo County's 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students), Indian Prairie Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Kalamazoo Central High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Indian Prairie Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 34%: 257 students in 2018 compared to 169 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 53% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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