PewamoWestphalia Elementary School

As a low-enrollment elementary campus in PEWAMO, Michigan, PewamoWestphalia Elementary School hosts 249 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Pewamo-Westphalia Community Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so PewamoWestphalia Elementary School sits 33% below that benchmark.

Pewamo-Westphalia Community Schools runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 753 students. PewamoWestphalia Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PewamoWestphalia Elementary School reports that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PewamoWestphalia Elementary School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting PewamoWestphalia Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Ionia County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, PewamoWestphalia Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.6%; this one delivers 59.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ionia County) reports that median household income runs about $75,611, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Ionia County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,506 students), PewamoWestphalia Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PewamoWestphalia MiddleHigh School, around 4.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around PewamoWestphalia Elementary School. On composite proficiency, PewamoWestphalia Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 41%: 176 students in 2018 compared to 249 in 2025. The White share of enrollment rose from 80% to 96% over that span.

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