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Portage, Michigan - 4 schools
1,592
Total Enrollment
4
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Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Kalamazoo Resa operates 4 public schools serving 1,592 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 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 Kalamazoo County.
The funding mix is 65.1% local, 21.8% state, and 13.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 39.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 44.1% White, 36.5% African American, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Valley Center School, with a diversity index of 62.4/100.
Its largest campus is Woodsedge Learning Center, enrolling 222 students (52% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Valley Center School, at 30 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Kalamazoo Resa school enrollment varies 7.4× across entities
Kalamazoo Resa school enrollment ranges from 30 students (lowest) to 222 students (highest), a spread of 192 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.
Kalamazoo Resa has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 57.4% 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). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. 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.
Kalamazoo Resa chronic absenteeism rate is 39.2% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.