Lake City Elementary School

Lake City Elementary School operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in LAKE CITY, Michigan, one of the schools within Lake City Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 508 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% bigger than the state mean of about 369.

Lake City Area School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,142 students. Lake City Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lake City Elementary School lists that nearly all students (92%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Lake City Elementary School logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Missaukee County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lake City Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.8%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of +9.6 points.

In the broader community, Missaukee County reports that median household income runs about $66,194, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Lake City Elementary School is one of 6 public schools in Missaukee County (combined enrollment of about 2,223 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lake City Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lake City Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.6%.

Lake City Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 547 students in 2018 compared to 508 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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