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Ionia, Michigan - 1 schools
At $15,111 per pupil, Berlin Township S/D #3 ranks #132 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
9
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$15,111
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Berlin Township S/D #3 operates 1 public schools serving 9 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Ionia County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,111 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 58.0% local, 10.0% state, and 32.0% 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 13.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Coon School, enrolling 15 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Coon School accounts for 100.0% of all Berlin Township S/D #3 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Berlin Township S/D #3 a distant remainder — means Berlin Township S/D #3-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Berlin Township S/D #3 chronic absenteeism rate is 13.3% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.