At $17,214 per pupil, Ionia Township S/D #2 ranks #123 of 812 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
14
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$17,214
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ionia Township S/D #2 operates 1 public schools serving 14 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 Ionia County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,214 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 812 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 38.8% local, 14.9% state, and 46.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 20.0% 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 North Levalley Elem School, enrolling 10 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
North Levalley Elem School accounts for 71.4% of all Ionia Township S/D #2 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ionia Township S/D #2 a distant remainder — means Ionia Township S/D #2-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. 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.
Ionia Township S/D #2 chronic absenteeism rate is 20.0% — 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 Ionia Township S/D #2 is typically wider than the Ionia Township S/D #2-aggregate figure suggests.