OvidElsie Middle School

OvidElsie Middle School, a low-enrollment 6-8 campus in ELSIE, Michigan, run under Ovid-Elsie Area Schools, instructs 293 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so OvidElsie Middle School sits 42% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, OvidElsie Middle School logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Clinton County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, OvidElsie Middle School reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting OvidElsie Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 50% of students at OvidElsie Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Clinton County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OvidElsie Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.1%; this one delivers 47.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Clinton County) logs that median household income runs about $88,210, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Clinton County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,640 students), OvidElsie Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OvidElsie High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around OvidElsie Middle School.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 391 students in 2018 compared to 293 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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