Lighthouse Elementary School

Lighthouse Elementary School operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in NEW BALTIMORE, Michigan, run under Anchor Bay School District. Current enrollment sits at 441 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Anchor Bay School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,295 students. Lighthouse Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lighthouse Elementary School logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Lighthouse Elementary School lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lighthouse Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.5%, the actual is 50.8%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Macomb County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Lighthouse Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ashley Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lighthouse Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lighthouse Elementary School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 52.4%.

Lighthouse Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 438 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.