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Traverse City, Michigan - 4 schools
903
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Northwest Education Services operates 4 public schools serving 903 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 1 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 Grand Traverse County.
The funding mix is 54.1% local, 36.1% state, and 9.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 14:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 49.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.5% White, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino, 2.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is North Ednew Horizons, with a diversity index of 28.6/100.
Its largest campus is North Ednew Horizons, enrolling 75 students (27% of the district's total enrollment).
Northwest Education Services student-counselor ratio is 14:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Northwest Education Services chronic absenteeism rate is 49.5% — 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.