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Charlevoix, Michigan - 2 schools
399
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Charlevoix-Emmet Isd operates 2 public schools serving 399 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high 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 Charlevoix County.
The funding mix is 66.8% local, 25.8% state, and 7.3% 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 65.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 87.2% White, 2.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Charem Special Education Schools, enrolling 99 students (82% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Charem Alternative Schools, at 22 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Charem Special Education Schools accounts for 24.8% of all Charlevoix-Emmet Isd student enrollment
That concentration means Charlevoix-Emmet Isd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Charlevoix-Emmet Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 52.6% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
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.
Charlevoix-Emmet Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 65.7% — 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.