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Kalkaska, Michigan - 1 schools
At $11,085 per pupil, Excelsior Township S/D #1 ranks #701 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
45
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$11,085
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Excelsior Township S/D #1 operates 1 public schools serving 45 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Kalkaska County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,085 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 24.6% local, 62.3% state, and 13.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 26.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Crawford School, enrolling 46 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Crawford School accounts for 100.0% of all Excelsior Township S/D #1 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Excelsior Township S/D #1 a distant remainder — means Excelsior Township S/D #1-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.
Excelsior Township S/D #1 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 66.7% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Excelsior Township S/D #1 chronic absenteeism rate is 26.1% — 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 Excelsior Township S/D #1 is typically wider than the Excelsior Township S/D #1-aggregate figure suggests.