JohannesburgLewiston ElementaryMiddle School

JohannesburgLewiston ElementaryMiddle School, a low-enrollment elementary school in JOHANNESBURG, Michigan, part of Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools, hosts 313 students, covering grades K through 8.

Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 675 students; JohannesburgLewiston ElementaryMiddle School is among them.

Demographically, JohannesburgLewiston ElementaryMiddle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Otsego County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JohannesburgLewiston ElementaryMiddle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of +10.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Otsego County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,183, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Otsego County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,337 students), JohannesburgLewiston ElementaryMiddle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JohannesburgLewiston High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, JohannesburgLewiston ElementaryMiddle School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. JohannesburgLewiston ElementaryMiddle School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 319 (now 313). Class-load math has fell: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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