Woodview Elementary School

Located at 450 ORCHARD ST, in BELDING, Michigan, Woodview Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus that hosts 372 students (grades 3 through 5), run under Belding Area School District.

Across the 4 schools in Belding Area School District (1,637 students total), Woodview Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Woodview Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Ionia County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ionia County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Woodview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Ionia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,611 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Woodview Elementary School is one of 30 public schools in Ionia County (combined enrollment of about 10,506 students).

Nearest neighbor: Link Learning Virtual Program, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Woodview Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Woodview Elementary School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodview Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 373 students in 2018 to 372 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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