Lakes Elementary School

Lakes Elementary School operates as a mid-tier elementary school in ROCKFORD, Michigan, overseen by Rockford Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 409 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Rockford Public Schools, which oversees 15 schools and 7,440 students, Lakes Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lakes Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder is composed of 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Lakes Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Kent County's rate of about 47%.

With demographic context factored in, Lakes Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 59.9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kent County put median household income runs about $82,631, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Kent County runs 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), of which Lakes Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is East Rockford Middle School, roughly 1.4 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lakes Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 68.8%.

Lakes Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Lakes Elementary School's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 525 (now 409).

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