SAIL Skills for Adult Independent Living

Set in MASON, Michigan, SAIL Skills for Adult Independent Living is a rural-scale 9-12 campus, run under Ingham ISD. It works with 13 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 460 students per school, that is 97% below typical.

Within Ingham ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 330 students, SAIL Skills for Adult Independent Living is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SAIL Skills for Adult Independent Living reports that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 15% Black, 8% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ingham County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ingham County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,526 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. SAIL Skills for Adult Independent Living is one of 100 public schools in Ingham County (combined enrollment of about 37,914 students).

Nearest neighbor: North Star School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

SAIL Skills for Adult Independent Living operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. SAIL Skills for Adult Independent Living's enrollment has fell 28% since 2018, when it stood at 18 (now 13). The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 0% to 15% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 6.5:1 today.

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