Whiteford Elementary School

Whiteford Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in OTTAWA LAKE, Michigan, overseen by Whiteford Agricultural School District of the Counties of Le. Current enrollment sits at 380 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Whiteford Agricultural School District of the Counties of Le runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 830 students. Whiteford Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Whiteford Elementary School logs that nearly all students (91%) are White; the rest is composed of 6% Hispanic, 3% 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 16.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Whiteford Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 24% of students at Whiteford Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Monroe County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Whiteford Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.8%; this one delivers 49.8%.

Across the wider county, census data for Monroe County shows median household earnings sit near $77,335, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monroe County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,286 students), of which Whiteford Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Whiteford High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Whiteford Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Whiteford Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 73.0%.

Whiteford Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 23%: 308 students in 2018 compared to 380 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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