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Grayling, Michigan - 4 schools
An equity score of 36/100 ranks Crawford Ausable Schools #564 of 707 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,347 per pupil, Crawford Ausable Schools ranks #481 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,647
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$12,347
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Crawford Ausable Schools operates 4 public schools serving 1,647 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 high, 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 Crawford County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,347 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 37.0% local, 48.7% state, and 14.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 36/100, ranked #564 of 707 in Michigan against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (13 AP courses district-wide), a 379:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 49.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.8% White, 3.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Grayling High School, with a diversity index of 18.7/100.
Its largest campus is Grayling Elementary School, enrolling 624 students (38% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Great Lakes Online Education, at 104 students, a 6x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Grayling Elementary School accounts for 37.9% of all Crawford Ausable Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Crawford Ausable Schools-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.
Crawford Ausable Schools school enrollment varies 6.0× across entities
Crawford Ausable Schools school enrollment ranges from 104 students (lowest) to 624 students (highest), a spread of 520 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Crawford Ausable Schools has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 56.2% 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.
Crawford Ausable Schools student-counselor ratio is 379:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Crawford Ausable Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 49.8% — 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.