Sheridan School

Set in PETOSKEY, Michigan, Sheridan School is a compact elementary-level community, overseen by Public Schools of Petoskey. It hosts 252 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 32% below typical.

Sheridan School is one of 7 schools operated by Public Schools of Petoskey, a district that hosts 2,416 students overall.

On demographics, Sheridan School lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Sheridan School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.1%, the actual is 52.8%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Emmet County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,112 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Emmet County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,138 students), of which Sheridan School is one.

Central Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sheridan School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

Sheridan School operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 272 students in 2018 compared to 252 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged up from 83% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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