WhittemorePrescott Area Elementary

WhittemorePrescott Area Elementary is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in WHITTEMORE, Michigan, part of Whittemore-Prescott Area Schools, educateing 347 students in grades K through 6.

Within Whittemore-Prescott Area Schools, which oversees 2 schools and 607 students, WhittemorePrescott Area Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, WhittemorePrescott Area Elementary logs that nearly all students (88%) are White; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 83% of students at WhittemorePrescott Area Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Iosco County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Iosco County reports that median household earnings sit near $50,066, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WhittemorePrescott Area Elementary is one of 11 public schools in Iosco County (combined enrollment of about 3,497 students).

The closest other public school is WhittemorePrescott JrSr High School, roughly 0.2 miles away.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 347 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 94% to 88%. Class-load math has fell: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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