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Stanton, Michigan - 4 schools
464
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Montcalm Area Isd operates 4 public schools serving 464 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 2 high 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 Montcalm County.
The funding mix is 46.3% local, 40.0% state, and 13.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 47.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.0% White, 2.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Early College at Montcalm Community College, with a diversity index of 17.0/100.
Its largest campus is Seiter Education Center, enrolling 74 students (36% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Montcalm Area Isd Transition Center, at 17 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Seiter Education Center accounts for 15.9% of all Montcalm Area Isd student enrollment
That concentration means Montcalm Area Isd-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.
Montcalm Area Isd school enrollment varies 4.4× across entities
Montcalm Area Isd school enrollment ranges from 17 students (lowest) to 74 students (highest), a spread of 57 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.
Montcalm Area Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 76.0% 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 — including this one — 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.
Montcalm Area Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 47.3% — 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.
Montcalm Area Isd has 4 schools, including 2 combined, 2 high. Total enrollment is 464 students.
What is the demographic composition of Montcalm Area Isd?
Montcalm Area Isd students are 94.0% White, 2.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American, 0.7% Asian, averaged across 4 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.