Newaygo Elementary School

Newaygo Elementary School is one of the roomy elementary-level communitys in NEWAYGO, Michigan, one of the schools within Newaygo Public School District, with 635 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Newaygo Elementary School sits 72% larger than that benchmark.

Within Newaygo Public School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,567 students, Newaygo Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Newaygo Elementary School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at Newaygo Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Newaygo Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.5%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Newaygo County put median household earnings sit near $63,304, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Newaygo Elementary School is one of 23 public schools in Newaygo County (combined enrollment of about 6,782 students).

Newaygo High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Newaygo Elementary School at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 33.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Newaygo Elementary School has grew 144%, going from 260 students in 2018 to 635 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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