Spitler Elementary School

Spitler Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in HART, Michigan, overseen by Hart Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 389 students spanning grades K through 4.

Hart Public School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,192 students; Spitler Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Spitler Elementary School reports that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 36% Hispanic. By comparison, Oceana County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Spitler Elementary School shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at Spitler Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Oceana County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Spitler Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Oceana County) logs that median household earnings sit near $62,417, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Spitler Elementary School is one of 10 public schools in Oceana County (combined enrollment of about 2,852 students).

The closest other public school is Hart High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Spitler Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 23%: 508 students in 2018 compared to 389 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 49% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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