Surline Elementary School

Surline Elementary School is a high-enrollment primary school in WEST BRANCH, Michigan, one of the schools within West Branch-Rose City Area Schools. The school works with 569 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Surline Elementary School sits 54% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in West Branch-Rose City Area Schools (1,844 students total), Surline Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Surline Elementary School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Surline Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Ogemaw County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,666 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Ogemaw County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,972 students), Surline Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Surline Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Surline Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 706 (now 569). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 97% to 92%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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