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Pigeon, Michigan - 3 schools
An equity score of 43/100 ranks Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools #458 of 707 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,988 per pupil, Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools ranks #214 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
936
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$13,988
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools operates 3 public schools serving 936 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 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 Huron County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,988 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 51.4% local, 39.4% state, and 9.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 43/100, ranked #458 of 707 in Michigan against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 564:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 24.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.8% White, 6.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Laker Elementary, with a diversity index of 21.1/100.
Its largest campus is Laker Elementary, enrolling 418 students (43% of the district's total enrollment).
Laker Elementary accounts for 42.6% of all Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools-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.
Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools student-counselor ratio is 564:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 24.4% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools is typically wider than the Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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