NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools MI

Best-Resourced Schools in Hastings, MI

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

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7
Schools
2,537
Students
25.4/100
Avg Resource Index
14.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hastings has more public-school enrollment than 21% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hastings'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

4 of Hastings's 7 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 1 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

Hastings lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 56 to 804 students, a 14-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 65%
Resource Index average
4th percentile
Teacher staffing
55th percentile

Hastings High School accounts for 31.7% of all Hastings public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Hastings-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

Hastings school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Hastings school enrollment ranges from 56 students (lowest) to 804 students (highest), a spread of 748 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

Hastings student-teacher ratio is 14.9:1 — 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 Hastings is typically wider than the Hastings-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Barry Isd Special Education 37
2. Central Elementary School 32
3. Northeastern Elementary School 27
4. Star Elementary School 27
5. Southeastern Elementary School 24
6. Hastings High School 18
7. Hastings Middle School 13

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Which Hastings school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Barry Isd Special Education has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hastings schools in this federal-data comparison at 37/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hastings, MI? ▼

Hastings has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,537 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.9:1.

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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.