Mill Creek Academy

As a cozy K-5 school in WILLIAMSBURG, Michigan, Mill Creek Academy enrolls 233 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Mill Creek Academy. That puts it 37% below the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Mill Creek Academy is the operating authority for Mill Creek Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Mill Creek Academy logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Mill Creek Academy reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Mill Creek Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 24% of students at Mill Creek Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the area at large, Grand Traverse County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,647 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Grand Traverse County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,069 students), Mill Creek Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Woodland School, roughly 6.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a low-density site. Mill Creek Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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