Nottawa Community School

Nottawa Community School is one of the modestly sized elementary-level communitys in STURGIS, Michigan, overseen by Nottawa Community School, with 189 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 49% below the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Nottawa Community School sits inside Nottawa Community School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Nottawa Community School lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Nottawa Community School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 50% of students at Nottawa Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for St. Joseph County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,425 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Nottawa Community School is one of 32 public schools in St. Joseph County (combined enrollment of about 9,517 students).

Pathfinder Educational Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Nottawa Community School's enrollment has ticked up 59% since 2018, when it stood at 119 (now 189). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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