Jefferson Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in COLDWATER, Michigan, Jefferson Elementary School enrolls 378 students from grades 2 through 3, run under Coldwater Community Schools.

Within Coldwater Community Schools, which oversees 5 schools and 2,813 students, Jefferson Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jefferson Elementary School records that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Jefferson Elementary School shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Jefferson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of +3.6 points.

Around the school, Branch County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,724 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Branch County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,546 students), of which Jefferson Elementary School is one.

Pansophia Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

Jefferson Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Jefferson Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 410 (now 378). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 91% to 80%. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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