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Cedarville, Michigan - 1 schools
An equity score of 68/100 ranks Les Cheneaux Community Schools #101 of 707 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,882 per pupil, Les Cheneaux Community Schools ranks #56 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Les Cheneaux Community Schools operates 1 public schools serving 227 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 Mackinac County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,882 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 83 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 74.0% local, 14.5% state, and 11.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 68/100, ranked #101 of 707 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 219:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 31.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 62.1% White, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cedarville School, enrolling 219 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Cedarville School accounts for 96.5% of all Les Cheneaux Community Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Les Cheneaux Community Schools a distant remainder — means Les Cheneaux Community Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Les Cheneaux Community Schools student-counselor ratio is 219:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Les Cheneaux Community Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 31.1% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Les Cheneaux Community Schools's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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