NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools MI

Best-Resourced Schools in Caledonia, MI

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10 public K-12 schools in Caledonia from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
4,837
Students
33.9/100
Avg Resource Index
14.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Caledonia has more public-school enrollment than 54% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Caledonia's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Caledonia's 10 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Caledonia lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 3 to 1,438 students, a 479-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 46%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
22nd percentile
Teacher staffing
58th percentile

Caledonia High School accounts for 29.7% of all Caledonia public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Caledonia-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Caledonia school enrollment varies 479× across entities

Caledonia school enrollment ranges from 3 students (lowest) to 1,438 students (highest), a spread of 1,435 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Caledonia student-teacher ratio is 14.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Caledonia is typically wider than the Caledonia-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Duncan Lake Transitions Program 59
2. Duncan Lake Early Childhood Center 45
3. Explorer Elementary 33
4. Duncan Lake Middle School 31
5. Paris Ridge Elementary 31
6. Kraft Meadows Intermediate School 29
7. Emmons Lake Elementary School 29
8. Dutton Elementary School 28
9. Caledonia High School 27
10. Caledonia Elementary School 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Caledonia

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Explorer Elementary 76.2/100
  2. 2 Dutton Elementary School 48.2/100
  3. 3 Duncan Lake Transitions Program 44.4/100
  4. 4 Kraft Meadows Intermediate School 36.1/100
  5. 5 Emmons Lake Elementary School 36.0/100

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Which Caledonia school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Duncan Lake Transitions Program has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Caledonia schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Caledonia, MI? ▼

Caledonia has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,837 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.