OvidElsie High School

OvidElsie High School is a 9-12 campus of close-knit scale in ELSIE, Michigan, operated by Ovid-Elsie Area Schools, caters to 372 students in grades 9 through 12.

Within Ovid-Elsie Area Schools, which oversees 5 schools and 1,275 students, OvidElsie High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, OvidElsie High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school logs 9% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, OvidElsie High School shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Clinton County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, Clinton County reports that median household income runs about $88,210, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clinton County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,640 students), OvidElsie High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OvidElsie Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

OvidElsie High School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OvidElsie High School has declined 19%, going from 457 students in 2018 to 372 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 96% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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