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Dansville, Michigan - 3 schools
An equity score of 18/100 ranks Dansville Schools #704 of 707 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,151 per pupil, Dansville Schools ranks #693 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
748
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$11,151
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Dansville Schools operates 3 public schools serving 748 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Ingham County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,151 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 33.3% local, 58.3% state, and 8.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 18/100, ranked #704 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 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 241.7:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 50.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.6% White, 3.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Dansville High School, with a diversity index of 16.4/100.
Its largest campus is Dansville Elementary School, enrolling 341 students (47% of the district's total enrollment).
Dansville Elementary School accounts for 45.6% of all Dansville Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Dansville Schools a distant remainder — means Dansville 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.
Dansville Schools school enrollment varies 2.0× across entities
Dansville Schools school enrollment ranges from 169 students (lowest) to 341 students (highest), a spread of 172 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.
Dansville Schools student-counselor ratio is 242:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Dansville Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 50.5% — 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.