Tobey Elementary School

As a moderately sized K-5 school in SCOTTS, Michigan, Tobey Elementary School caters to 379 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Vicksburg Community Schools.

Tobey Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Vicksburg Community Schools, a district that caters to 2,560 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tobey Elementary School lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kalamazoo County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tobey Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.9%; this one delivers 46.7%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kalamazoo County put median household income runs about $72,532, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kalamazoo County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students), of which Tobey Elementary School is one.

Lake Center Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tobey Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.3%.

Tobey Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 38%: 275 students in 2018 compared to 379 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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