Lakeland Elementary School

Lakeland Elementary School, a mid-tier K-5 school in COLDWATER, Michigan, part of Coldwater Community Schools, teaches 375 students, covering grades 4 through 5.

Coldwater Community Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,813 students. Lakeland Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lakeland Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Branch County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Branch County (around 58%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lakeland 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 29.0%, a residual of -6.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Branch County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,724 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Lakeland Elementary School is one of 18 public schools in Branch County (combined enrollment of about 6,546 students).

The closest other public school is Waldron Learning Center, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lakeland Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 37.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 407 students in 2018 compared to 375 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 90% to 79%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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