Vanderbilt Area School

Located in VANDERBILT, Michigan, Vanderbilt Area School is a very small school serving multiple grade levels. The school runs kindergarten through 12 and enrolls 72 students. Combined schools in Michigan average about 281 students, which makes this school 74% below average.

Vanderbilt Area Schools is the district for Vanderbilt Area School.

By race and ethnicity, Vanderbilt Area School is 99% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 3, compared with 70 nationally.

There are about 7.2 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Vanderbilt Area School, which has 10. The school's 7.2:1 compares with an average of 17.3:1 for combined schools in Michigan. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 82%. The gap from the 55% average for public schools in Otsego County is 27 points.

In Otsego County, home to about 25,584 people, the median household earns about $68,183 a year, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Vanderbilt Area School shares Otsego County with 7 other public schools.

Among nearby public schools, Gaylord High SchoolVoc Bldg is closest at about 6.8 miles. Vanderbilt Area School is one of several public schools in the area, with 7 others within ten miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Distant: in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

A 31% decrease took enrollment from 104 in 2020-21 to 72 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 13.0:1 to 7.2:1.

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