Berrien Resa operates 3 public schools serving 780 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 Berrien County.
The funding mix is 47.6% local, 34.3% state, and 18.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 63.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 46.3% White, 45.5% African American, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Blossomland Learning Center, with a diversity index of 56.7/100.
Its largest campus is Lighthouse Education Center, enrolling 128 students (49% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Berrien County Juvenile Center, at 10 students, a 13x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Lighthouse Education Center accounts for 16.4% of all Berrien Resa student enrollment
That concentration means Berrien Resa-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Berrien Resa school enrollment varies 13× across entities
Berrien Resa school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 128 students (highest), a spread of 118 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.
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
Berrien Resa chronic absenteeism rate is 63.7% — 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.