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Joseph K Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
About Joseph K Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy
Joseph K Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy is a large K-5 school in SAULT SAINTE MARIE, Michigan, run under Joseph K. Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy. The school enrolls 601 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Joseph K Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy sits 63% larger than that benchmark.
Joseph K Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy sits inside Joseph K. Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
Looking at the student body, Joseph K Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy records that the largest single group is Native American at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 36% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Joseph K Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.3%; this one delivers 43.1%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Chippewa County) reports that median household income runs about $62,217, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Chippewa County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,835 students), Joseph K Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Joseph K. Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Joseph K Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy operates from a small-town location. Joseph K Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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