Woods Lake ElementaryA Magnet Center For The Arts

Set in KALAMAZOO, Michigan, Woods Lake ElementaryA Magnet Center For The Arts is a mid-sized elementary-level community, part of Kalamazoo Public Schools. It enrolls 501 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Woods Lake ElementaryA Magnet Center For The Arts sits 36% bigger than that benchmark.

Woods Lake ElementaryA Magnet Center For The Arts is one of 26 schools operated by Kalamazoo Public Schools, a district that instructs 12,227 students overall.

On demographics, Woods Lake ElementaryA Magnet Center For The Arts lists that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 24% White, 15% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Kalamazoo County's rate of about 45%.

With demographic context factored in, Woods Lake ElementaryA Magnet Center For The Arts performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 21.9%, a residual of -9.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kalamazoo County) logs that median household income runs about $72,532, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Kalamazoo County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students), of which Woods Lake ElementaryA Magnet Center For The Arts is one.

Nearest neighbor: Winchell Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woods Lake ElementaryA Magnet Center For The Arts. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woods Lake ElementaryA Magnet Center For The Arts at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 45.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Woods Lake ElementaryA Magnet Center For The Arts's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 501). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 20% to 8%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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