Lillian Fletcher Elem School

Lillian Fletcher Elem School operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in HOMER, Michigan, run under Homer Community School District. Current enrollment sits at 319 students spanning grades K through 4.

Lillian Fletcher Elem School is one of 3 schools operated by Homer Community School District, a district that hosts 834 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Lillian Fletcher Elem School reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Calhoun County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Calhoun County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Lillian Fletcher Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.8%, the actual is 30.2%, a residual of -6.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Calhoun County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,177 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lillian Fletcher Elem School is one of 56 public schools in Calhoun County (combined enrollment of about 18,982 students).

Nearest neighbor: Homer Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Lillian Fletcher Elem School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 406 students in 2018 compared to 319 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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