OwendaleGagetown Elementary School

OwendaleGagetown Elementary School is a micro-enrollment elementary school in OWENDALE, Michigan, one of the schools within Owendale-Gagetown Area School District. The school instructs 67 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 82% leaner than typical.

Owendale-Gagetown Area School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 136 students; OwendaleGagetown Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, OwendaleGagetown Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest comes out to 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Huron County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Huron County's rate of about 45%.

In the surrounding community, Huron County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,870 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Huron County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,235 students), OwendaleGagetown Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OwendaleGagetown JrSr High School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 69 students in 2018 compared to 67 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 94% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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