Lakewood Early Childhood Center

Set in WOODLAND, Michigan, Lakewood Early Childhood Center is an one-room-style elementary-level community, operated by Lakewood Public Schools. It caters to 134 students across grades pre-K through K. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 64% below typical.

Within Lakewood Public Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 1,582 students, Lakewood Early Childhood Center is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Lakewood Early Childhood Center lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Barry County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Lakewood Early Childhood Center has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Lakewood Early Childhood Center tighter than the state norm the norm. About 31% 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, Barry County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Barry County shows median household income runs about $77,500, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Lakewood Early Childhood Center is one of 22 public schools in Barry County (combined enrollment of about 8,041 students).

Lakewood Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 170 students in 2018 compared to 134 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 91% to 82%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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