Ross Park Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in MUSKEGON, Michigan, Ross Park Elementary School teaches 450 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Mona Shores Public School District. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Ross Park Elementary School sits 22% larger than that benchmark.

Ross Park Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Mona Shores Public School District, a district that caters to 3,927 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ross Park Elementary School reports that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 9% Black, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ross Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 39.1%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Muskegon County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,024 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Ross Park Elementary School is one of 71 public schools in Muskegon County (combined enrollment of about 25,245 students).

The closest other public school is Churchill Elementary School, roughly 1.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ross Park Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

Ross Park Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ross Park Elementary School has decreased 5%, going from 476 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 82% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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