Whitehall Ealy Elem School

Whitehall Ealy Elem School is a mid-tier elementary-level community in WHITEHALL, Michigan, one of the schools within Whitehall District Schools. The school educates 431 students in grades 3 through 5.

Whitehall Ealy Elem School is one of 5 schools operated by Whitehall District Schools, a district that works with 2,013 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Whitehall Ealy Elem School records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Whitehall Ealy Elem School shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Muskegon County (around 59%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Whitehall Ealy Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.5%; this one delivers 47.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Muskegon County indicate median household income runs about $65,024, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Whitehall Ealy Elem School is one of 71 public schools in Muskegon County (combined enrollment of about 25,245 students).

The closest other public school is Whitehall Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Whitehall Ealy Elem School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 449 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 87% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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