Union City Elementary School

Union City Elementary School is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in UNION CITY, Michigan, run under Union City Community Schools, instructing 359 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Within Union City Community Schools, which oversees 3 schools and 909 students, Union City Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Union City Elementary School lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Branch County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Union City Elementary School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 62% of students at Union City Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the surrounding community, census data for Branch County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,724 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Union City Elementary School is one of 18 public schools in Branch County (combined enrollment of about 6,546 students).

Nearest neighbor: Union City High School, around 0.6 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Union City Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Union City Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 359). Class-load math has fell: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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