Lyle A Torrant Center

Located at 1175 W PARNALL RD, in JACKSON, Michigan, Lyle A Torrant Center is an intimate all-grades campus that instructs 191 students (grades pre-K through 12), part of Jackson ISD. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 281 students each, so Lyle A Torrant Center sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Jackson ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 453 students, Lyle A Torrant Center is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Lyle A Torrant Center reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest is composed of 9% multiracial, 8% Black, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lyle A Torrant Center has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.6:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Lyle A Torrant Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, Jackson County reports that median household income runs about $66,073, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jackson County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,681 students), of which Lyle A Torrant Center is one.

The closest other public school is Northwest Early Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lyle A Torrant Center has ticked up 24%, going from 154 students in 2018 to 191 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 86% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 4.9:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 in 2025.

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