North Elementary School

North Elementary School operates as a cozy elementary school in ITHACA, Michigan, operated by Ithaca Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 295 students spanning grades 3 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 20% leaner than the state mean of about 369.

Ithaca Public Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 971 students; North Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, North Elementary School reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, North Elementary School lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting North Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at North Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Gratiot County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), North Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 33.1%, a residual of -10.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Gratiot County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,556 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Gratiot County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,245 students), North Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ithaca High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, North Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 332 students in 2018 compared to 295 in 2025.

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