Minges Brook School

Minges Brook School is a mid-sized elementary school in BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, part of Lakeview Sch. District (Calhoun). The school hosts 368 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Lakeview Sch. District (Calhoun) comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,706 students; Minges Brook School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Minges Brook School lists that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 20% Black, 17% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 8% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Minges Brook School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Calhoun County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Minges Brook School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.8%, the actual is 40.0%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Calhoun County shows 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. Minges Brook School is one of 56 public schools in Calhoun County (combined enrollment of about 18,982 students).

Riverside Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Minges Brook School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 18%: 313 students in 2018 compared to 368 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 51% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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