Moccasin Elementary School

Moccasin Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school in BUCHANAN, Michigan, run under Buchanan Community Schools. The school serves 354 students in grades 2 through 4.

Within Buchanan Community Schools, which oversees 6 schools and 1,567 students, Moccasin Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Moccasin Elementary School logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Moccasin Elementary School reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Moccasin Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Moccasin Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.0%; this one delivers 49.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Berrien County) shows that median household income runs about $65,425, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Berrien County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,027 students), Moccasin Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Buchanan Step Up is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Moccasin Elementary School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 4%: 339 students in 2018 compared to 354 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 87% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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