Shelby Elementary School

Shelby Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in SHELBY, Michigan, part of Shelby Public Schools. The school enrolls 433 students in grades K through 5.

Shelby Public Schools runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,186 students. Shelby Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Shelby Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 43% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Shelby Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Shelby Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 78% of students at Shelby Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Shelby Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.7%; this one delivers 20.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Oceana County shows median household income runs about $62,417, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Oceana County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,852 students), of which Shelby Elementary School is one.

Shelby High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Shelby Elementary School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 12%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 433 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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