An equity score of 40/100 ranks Kenowa Hills Public Schools #509 of 702 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,913 per pupil, Kenowa Hills Public Schools ranks #302 of 812 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,010
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$14,913
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Kenowa Hills Public Schools operates 6 public schools serving 3,010 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 2 elementary, 1 middle, 1 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 Kent County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,913 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 46.8% local, 39.5% state, and 13.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 40/100, ranked #509 of 702 in Michigan against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (9 AP courses district-wide), a 536:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 33.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 65.9% White, 19.0% Hispanic or Latino, 7.5% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Kenowa Hills Pathways High School, with a diversity index of 66.3/100.
Its largest campus is Kenowa Hills High School, enrolling 876 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Kenowa Hills Pathways High School, at 99 students, a 9x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Kenowa Hills High School accounts for 29.1% of all Kenowa Hills Public Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Kenowa Hills Public Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Kenowa Hills Public Schools school enrollment varies 8.8× across entities
Kenowa Hills Public Schools school enrollment ranges from 99 students (lowest) to 876 students (highest), a spread of 777 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Kenowa Hills Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 536:1 — 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.
Kenowa Hills Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 33.5% — 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.