Kendon School

Kendon School is a low-enrollment elementary school found in LANSING, Michigan. Its 159 students are spread across pre-K through 3. The typical figure for elementary schools in Michigan is about 369 students.

Lansing Public School District counts 10,048 students in its 26 schools, and Kendon School is one of them.

No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Kendon School. The largest is Black students, at 36%. The next largest groups are 26% White, 21% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, and 3% Asian. In Ingham County overall, about 11% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 74% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Teachers at the school number 12.8 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.4:1. On average, elementary schools in Michigan have 15.8:1, compared with 12.4:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 89% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Ingham County report 49%.

Within Ingham County, the median household income is $65,526, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. In all, Ingham County has 100 public schools and roughly 37,914 students.

Ingham County Youth Center is the public school closest to Kendon School, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Locale data from NCES put Kendon School inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000 (City: Mid-size).

Enrollment at Kendon School dropped 10% between 2017-18 and 2022-23, from 177 to 159 students. The Black share of enrollment rose from 29% to 36% over the same period. Federal data show the ratio falling from 14.8:1 to 12.4:1.

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