North Elementary School

As a compact elementary school in WATERVLIET, Michigan, North Elementary School serves 312 students from grades 3 through 5, one of the schools within Watervliet School District.

Watervliet School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,406 students; North Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, North Elementary School shows that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Berrien County's rate of about 55%.

After controlling for student poverty, North Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Berrien County put median household earnings sit near $65,425, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Berrien County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,027 students), North Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

WAY Watervliet High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Elementary School has edged up 3%, going from 304 students in 2018 to 312 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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