Oakridge Lower Elementary School

Located at 120 N PARK ST, in MUSKEGON, Michigan, Oakridge Lower Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that instructs 549 students (grades pre-K through 4), operated by Oakridge Public Schools. That puts it 49% larger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Within Oakridge Public Schools, which oversees 5 schools and 1,829 students, Oakridge Lower Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Oakridge Lower Elementary School lists that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Oakridge Lower Elementary School shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Muskegon County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Oakridge Lower Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 32.1%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Muskegon County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,024, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Muskegon County runs 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,245 students), of which Oakridge Lower Elementary School is one.

Oakridge High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oakridge Lower Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Oakridge Lower Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 24.2%.

Oakridge Lower Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 581 students in 2018 compared to 549 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 75% across the same window.

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