Robert Kerr School

Robert Kerr School, a reasonably sized K-5 school in DURAND, Michigan, part of Durand Area Schools, hosts 361 students, covering grades 2 through 5.

Robert Kerr School is one of 4 schools operated by Durand Area Schools, a district that serves 1,208 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Robert Kerr School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest looks like 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Shiawassee County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 56% of students at Robert Kerr School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Shiawassee County (around 45%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Robert Kerr School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -9.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Shiawassee County shows median household income runs about $67,404, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Robert Kerr School is one of 31 public schools in Shiawassee County (combined enrollment of about 10,105 students).

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

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Robert Kerr School has increased 33%, going from 271 students in 2018 to 361 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 9% to 2%.

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