NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools MI

Best-Resourced Schools in Richland, MI

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

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5
Schools
2,732
Students
34.4/100
Avg Resource Index
16.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Richland has more public-school enrollment than 24% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Richland's 5 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 Richland's 5 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 0 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

Richland lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 28 to 877 students, a 31-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 76%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
23rd percentile
Teacher staffing
40th percentile

Gull Lake High School accounts for 32.1% of all Richland public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Richland-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Richland school enrollment varies 31× across entities

Richland school enrollment ranges from 28 students (lowest) to 877 students (highest), a spread of 849 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Richland operates one school district — a single-district system

Richland'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

Richland student-teacher ratio is 16.3:1 — 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 Richland is typically wider than the Richland-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Gull Lake High School 43
2. Gull Lake Gateway Academy 37
3. Thomas M Ryan Intermediate School 33
4. Richland Elementary School 30
5. Gull Lake Middle School 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Richland

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 Gull Lake Gateway Academy 58.4/100
  2. 2 Richland Elementary School 38.6/100
  3. 3 Gull Lake Middle School 33.6/100
  4. 4 Thomas M Ryan Intermediate School 33.6/100
  5. 5 Gull Lake High School 30.9/100

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Which Richland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gull Lake High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Richland schools in this federal-data comparison at 43/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Richland, MI? ▼

Richland has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,732 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.3:1.

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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.