Timberland Academy

As a sprawling elementary-level community in MUSKEGON, Michigan, Timberland Academy serves 613 students from grades K through 8, operated by Timberland Academy. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Timberland Academy sits 66% bigger than that benchmark.

Timberland Academy sits inside Timberland Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Timberland Academy logs that Black students make up the majority at 60%; the rest comes out to 14% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 12% White. By comparison, Muskegon County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Timberland Academy shows 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Muskegon County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Timberland Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Muskegon County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,024, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Timberland Academy is one of 71 public schools in Muskegon County (combined enrollment of about 25,245 students).

Orchard View Community Education is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. Timberland Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Timberland Academy's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 724 (now 613). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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