Newberry Area School

Located at 700 NEWBERRY AVE, in NEWBERRY, Michigan, Newberry Area School is a heavily attended all-grades campus that hosts 496 students (grades pre-K through 12), operated by Tahquamenon Area Schools. That puts it 77% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 281 students.

Newberry Area School is a school of Tahquamenon Area Schools, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Newberry Area School shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 5% Native American, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Newberry Area School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Luce County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,893 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Luce County runs 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 496 students), of which Newberry Area School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Three Lakes Academy, around 15.5 miles off.

Newberry Area School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Newberry Area School's enrollment has grew 62% since 2018, when it stood at 307 (now 496). White enrollment moved from 85% to 89% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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