Stephenson Area Public School

Located at 526 DIVISION ST, in STEPHENSON, Michigan, Stephenson Area Public School is a middle-of-the-pack multi-level school that hosts 380 students (grades K through 12), part of Stephenson Area Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 35% bigger than the state mean of about 281.

Stephenson Area Public School is a school of Stephenson Area Public Schools, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Stephenson Area Public School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Menominee County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at Stephenson Area Public School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Menominee County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Stephenson Area Public School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Menominee County reports that median household income runs about $56,435, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Menominee County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,979 students), Stephenson Area Public School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Uplift Michigan Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, Stephenson Area Public School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Stephenson Area Public School's enrollment has grew 138% since 2018, when it stood at 160 (now 380). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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