Unity Alternative School

Unity Alternative School is one of the rural-scale senior highs in LOWELL, Michigan, one of the schools within Lowell Area Schools, with 19 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 460 students per school, that is 96% smaller than typical.

Lowell Area Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,455 students. Unity Alternative School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Unity Alternative School reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Unity Alternative School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Kent County put the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Unity Alternative School is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

Bushnell Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools.

Unity Alternative School operates from a town-based location.

Looking at the recent track record. Unity Alternative School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 21 (now 19). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 95% to 89%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

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