An equity score of 61/100 ranks Lake Linden-Hubbell School District #177 of 702 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,210 per pupil, Lake Linden-Hubbell School District ranks #257 of 812 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Lake Linden-Hubbell School District operates 1 public schools serving 376 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Houghton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,210 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 37.4% local, 47.3% state, and 15.4% 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 61/100, ranked #177 of 702 in Michigan against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 327:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 43.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.6% White, 1.8% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lake Lindenhubbell Schools, enrolling 327 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Lake Lindenhubbell Schools accounts for 87.0% of all Lake Linden-Hubbell School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lake Linden-Hubbell School District a distant remainder — means Lake Linden-Hubbell 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. 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.
Lake Linden-Hubbell School District reports 53.7% free-lunch eligibility
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.
Lake Linden-Hubbell School District student-counselor ratio is 327:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Lake Linden-Hubbell School District is typically wider than the Lake Linden-Hubbell School District-aggregate figure suggests.
Lake Linden-Hubbell School District chronic absenteeism rate is 43.1% — 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 Lake Linden-Hubbell School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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