Mason County Central Upper Elementary

Mason County Central Upper Elementary is a K-5 school of modestly sized scale in SCOTTVILLE, Michigan, run under Mason County Central Schools, hosting 258 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Mason County Central Upper Elementary sits 30% below that benchmark.

Mason County Central Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,203 students. Mason County Central Upper Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mason County Central Upper Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Mason County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Mason County Central Upper Elementary logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at Mason County Central Upper Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, census data for Mason County shows median household earnings sit near $64,748, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Mason County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,846 students), Mason County Central Upper Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Mason County Central HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mason County Central Upper Elementary.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Mason County Central Upper Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 309 (now 258). White enrollment moved from 85% to 91% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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