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Bay City, Michigan - 3 schools
Bay-Arenac Isd operates 3 public schools serving 722 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 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 Bay County.
The funding mix is 45.6% local, 42.3% state, and 12.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 59.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 76.0% White, 12.8% African American, 8.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Detention Center, with a diversity index of 51.3/100.
Its largest campus is Isdlocal Programs, enrolling 92 students (63% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Detention Center, at 11 students, a 8x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Bay-Arenac Isd school enrollment ranges from 11 students (lowest) to 92 students (highest), a spread of 81 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Source: ESSA Title I Part A; ED EDFacts file system ESSA Title I Part A; ED EDFacts file system
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.
Source: NCES Civil Rights Data Collection 2021-22 NCES Civil Rights Data Collection 2021-22
Average demographic composition across 3 schools in Bay-Arenac Isd.
Source: NCES CCD School Membership 2024-25.
Average Simpson diversity index across Bay-Arenac Isd's schools, about the same as the Michigan average of 36.2.
Source: NCES Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22.
| School | Enrollment |
|---|---|
| Isdlocal Programs | 92 |
| Llcbay Campus | 44 |
| Detention Center | 11 |
The Michigan districts closest to this one in total enrollment.
| District | Enrollment | Spending | Funding Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manistique Area Schools | Similar size | No spending data | Similar funding mix |
| Addison Community Schools | Similar size | No spending data | Similar funding mix |
| Brown City Community Schools | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
| Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools | Similar size | No spending data | More locally funded |
| West Mi Academy of Environmental Science | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
Comparisons are relative to Bay-Arenac Isd's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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Compare vs Detroit Public Schools Community District →Bay-Arenac Isd has 3 schools, including 3 combined. Total enrollment is 722 students.
Bay-Arenac Isd students are 76.0% White, 12.8% African American, 8.2% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 3 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.
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