At $16,302 per pupil, Alba Public Schools ranks #161 of 812 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Alba Public Schools operates 1 public schools serving 96 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Antrim County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,302 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 812 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 51.3% local, 32.2% state, and 16.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 64.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.7% White, 2.1% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Alba School, enrolling 96 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 5.2% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (96 to 101 students), while the student-teacher ratio tightened by 3.0 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,629,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 47.5% went to instruction, 41.7% to support services, and 2.1% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Alba School accounts for 100.0% of all Alba Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alba Public Schools a distant remainder — means Alba Public Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Alba Public Schools reports 77.1% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Alba Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 64.6% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Alba Public Schools has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 96 students.
How much does Alba Public Schools spend per student?
Alba Public Schools spends $16,302 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Alba Public Schools?
Alba Public Schools students are 91.7% White, 2.1% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.