John R Lewis Elementary

John R Lewis Elementary is an one-room-style elementary campus in JACKSON, Michigan, one of the schools within Jackson Public Schools. The school hosts 140 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 62% leaner than the state mean of about 369.

Jackson Public Schools runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 4,310 students. John R Lewis Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, John R Lewis Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% White, 13% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the resource side, John R Lewis Elementary logs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Jackson County's rate of about 53%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,073 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Jackson County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,681 students), John R Lewis Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Middle School at Parkside, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John R Lewis Elementary.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.