Light of the World Academy

Light of the World Academy is a K-5 school of close-knit scale in PINCKNEY, Michigan, one of the schools within Light of the World Academy, enrolling 222 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Light of the World Academy sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.

Light of the World Academy sits inside Light of the World Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Light of the World Academy records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Light of the World Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Livingston County runs at roughly 20%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Light of the World Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 56.9%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Livingston County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,039 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Light of the World Academy is one of 48 public schools in Livingston County (combined enrollment of about 24,695 students).

Pinckney Community High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Light of the World Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Light of the World Academy at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 51.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. As a public charter, Light of the World Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Light of the World Academy's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 223 (now 222). Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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