Sheldon Pines School

Sheldon Pines School is a very small all-grades campus in HOLLAND, Michigan, run under Ottawa Area ISD. The school instructs 23 students in grades K through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 281 students each, so Sheldon Pines School sits 92% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Ottawa Area ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 228 students, Sheldon Pines School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Sheldon Pines School logs that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 22% multiracial, 13% Black. By comparison, Ottawa County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at Sheldon Pines School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Ottawa County's rate of about 34%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Ottawa County) shows that median household earnings sit near $90,502, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Ottawa County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students), Sheldon Pines School is one campus in the mix.

Sheldon Woods Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Sheldon Pines School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 5%: 22 students in 2018 compared to 23 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 43% across the same window.

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