Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District operates 2 public schools serving 254 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined 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 Cass County.
The funding mix is 47.7% local, 33.6% state, and 18.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 49.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 71.2% White, 6.9% African American, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Brookside Learning Center, enrolling 64 students (59% of the district's total enrollment).
Brookside Learning Center accounts for 25.2% of all Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District student enrollment
That concentration means Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District reports 65.8% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District chronic absenteeism rate is 49.9% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District?
Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District has 2 schools, including 2 combined. Total enrollment is 254 students.
What is the demographic composition of Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District?
Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District students are 71.2% White, 6.9% African American, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% Asian, averaged across 2 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.