White Pigeon JrSr High School

As a tight-knit secondary school in WHITE PIGEON, Michigan, White Pigeon JrSr High School teaches 363 students from grades 6 through 12, run under White Pigeon Community Schools. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 460 students.

White Pigeon Community Schools comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 729 students; White Pigeon JrSr High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, White Pigeon JrSr High School reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than St. Joseph County's rate of about 55%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (St. Joseph County) records that median household earnings sit near $66,425, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across St. Joseph County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,517 students), White Pigeon JrSr High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Central Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around White Pigeon JrSr High School.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. White Pigeon JrSr High School's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 408 (now 363). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 87% to 82%.

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