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 largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
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 reports 75.4% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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.
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.