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Saint Clair Shores, Michigan - 7 schools
An equity score of 44/100 ranks Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb) #430 of 707 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,653 per pupil, Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb) ranks #432 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,287
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$12,653
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb) operates 7 public schools serving 4,287 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 elementary, 2 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Macomb County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,653 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 22.2% local, 68.7% state, and 9.1% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 44/100, ranked #430 of 707 in Michigan against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 7 schools offering Advanced Placement (12 AP courses district-wide), a 482.6:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 44.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 68.5% White, 15.4% African American, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Harmon Elementary School, with a diversity index of 59.3/100.
Its largest campus is Lakeview High School, enrolling 1,319 students (32% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Lakeview Virtual School, at 46 students, a 29x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Lakeview High School accounts for 30.8% of all Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb) student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb) school enrollment varies 29× across entities
Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb) school enrollment ranges from 46 students (lowest) to 1,319 students (highest), a spread of 1,273 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb) student-counselor ratio is 483:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb) chronic absenteeism rate is 44.8% — 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 Lakeview Public Schools (Macomb)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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