IshpemingNegauneeNICE Comm Ed Division

IshpemingNegauneeNICE Comm Ed Division is one of the minimally staffed secondary schools in ISHPEMING, Michigan, part of Ishpeming Public School District No. 1, with 22 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so IshpemingNegauneeNICE Comm Ed Division sits 95% leaner than that benchmark.

Ishpeming Public School District No. 1 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 612 students; IshpemingNegauneeNICE Comm Ed Division is among them.

Demographically, IshpemingNegauneeNICE Comm Ed Division records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest consists of 5% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Marquette County's rate of about 34%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Marquette County) shows that median household earnings sit near $65,429, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. IshpemingNegauneeNICE Comm Ed Division is one of 25 public schools in Marquette County (combined enrollment of about 7,657 students).

Ishpeming Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IshpemingNegauneeNICE Comm Ed Division.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. IshpemingNegauneeNICE Comm Ed Division's enrollment has grew 22% since 2018, when it stood at 18 (now 22). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 0% to 5% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 6.0:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 in 2025.

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