Kingsley Area Elementary School

Kingsley Area Elementary School operates as a large primary school in KINGSLEY, Michigan, operated by Kingsley Area Schools. Current enrollment sits at 655 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 78% bigger than typical.

Kingsley Area Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,422 students; Kingsley Area Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Kingsley Area Elementary School logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Grand Traverse County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kingsley Area Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.8%; this one delivers 46.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Grand Traverse County put median household income runs about $81,647, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Grand Traverse County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,069 students), Kingsley Area Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Kingsley Area Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Kingsley Area Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Kingsley Area Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

Kingsley Area Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 16%: 566 students in 2018 compared to 655 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Kingsley Area Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.