Jessie Loomis School

As a tight-knit K-5 school in SAGINAW, Michigan, Jessie Loomis School educates 308 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Saginaw School District of the City of.

Saginaw School District of the City of runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 5,382 students. Jessie Loomis School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Jessie Loomis School records that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Saginaw County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Saginaw County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Saginaw County) records that median household earnings sit near $60,622, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Jessie Loomis School is one of 75 public schools in Saginaw County (combined enrollment of about 25,621 students).

SAGINAW MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Jessie Loomis School's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 308). Black enrollment moved from 90% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.