Kolb Elementary School

Located at 305 W CRUMP ST, in BAY CITY, Michigan, Kolb Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school that teaches 451 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Bay City School District. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 369.

Kolb Elementary School is one of 13 schools operated by Bay City School District, a district that serves 6,030 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kolb Elementary School reports that 72% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Bay County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bay County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kolb Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.2%; this one delivers 32.6%.

Zooming out to the county, Bay County reports that median household earnings sit near $61,763, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bay County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,525 students), Kolb Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Handy Middle School, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kolb Elementary School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 578 students in 2018 compared to 451 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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