NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MI

Best-Resourced Schools in Edwardsburg, MI

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

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6
Schools
2,519
Students
24.7/100
Avg Resource Index
24.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Edwardsburg has more public-school enrollment than 21% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Edwardsburg's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Edwardsburg's 6 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

Edwardsburg lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 46 to 773 students, a 17-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 79%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
4th percentile
Teacher staffing
2nd percentile

Edwardsburg High School accounts for 30.7% of all Edwardsburg public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Edwardsburg-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

Edwardsburg school enrollment varies 17× across entities

Edwardsburg school enrollment ranges from 46 students (lowest) to 773 students (highest), a spread of 727 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Edwardsburg operates one school district — a single-district system

Edwardsburg's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Edwardsburg student-teacher ratio is 24.5:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Edwardsburg Alternative Learning Center 31
2. Edwardsburg High School 30
3. Eagle Lake Elementary School 29
4. Edwardsburg Intermediate School 28
5. Edwardsburg Primary School 19
6. Edwardsburg Middle School 11

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Which Edwardsburg school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Edwardsburg Alternative Learning Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Edwardsburg schools in this federal-data comparison at 31/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Edwardsburg, MI? ▼

Edwardsburg has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,519 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24.5:1.

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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.