Jamestown Lower Elementary School

Jamestown Lower Elementary School is a K-5 school of compact scale in HUDSONVILLE, Michigan, overseen by Hudsonville Public School District, teacheing 289 students in grades pre-K through 2. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 22% leaner than typical.

Hudsonville Public School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 6,654 students. Jamestown Lower Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Jamestown Lower Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 80%. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Jamestown Lower Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ottawa County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ottawa County indicate median household income runs about $90,502, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Ottawa County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students), Jamestown Lower Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Jamestown Upper Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Jamestown Lower Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Jamestown Lower Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 361 (now 289). The White share of enrollment shrank from 92% to 80% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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