Jessie Rouse School

Jessie Rouse School is one of the compact elementary campuss in SAGINAW, Michigan, part of Saginaw School District of the City of, with 230 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Jessie Rouse School sits 38% below that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Jessie Rouse School shows that the largest single group is Black, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 10% White. By comparison, Saginaw County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Jessie Rouse School has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Saginaw County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Saginaw County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,622 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Jessie Rouse School is one of 75 public schools in Saginaw County (combined enrollment of about 25,621 students).

Nearest neighbor: Francis Reh PSA, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 241 students in 2018 compared to 230 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 64% to 72% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.