St Charles Elementary School

As a medium-sized primary school in SAINT CHARLES, Michigan, St Charles Elementary School caters to 317 students from grades pre-K through 6, overseen by St. Charles Community Schools.

St. Charles Community Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 692 students; St Charles Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, St Charles Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Saginaw County's rate of about 59%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, St Charles Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.4%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of +9.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Saginaw County put the typical household earns roughly $60,622 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Saginaw County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,621 students), of which St Charles Elementary School is one.

St Charles Virtual School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around St Charles Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts St Charles Elementary School at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 52.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at St Charles Elementary School has decreased 12%, going from 359 students in 2018 to 317 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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