Pine Island Elementary

Set in COMSTOCK PARK, Michigan, Pine Island Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school, operated by Comstock Park Public Schools. It enrolls 379 students across grades 3 through 5.

Comstock Park Public Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,751 students; Pine Island Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Pine Island Elementary shows that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 24% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 8% Black. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Pine Island Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pine Island Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.8%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the area at large, Kent County reports that median household income runs about $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Pine Island Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Comstock Park High School, roughly 1.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pine Island Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 11%: 425 students in 2018 compared to 379 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 57% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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