An equity score of 66/100 ranks Orchard View Schools #113 of 702 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,017 per pupil, Orchard View Schools ranks #181 of 812 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,171
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$16,017
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Orchard View Schools operates 5 public schools serving 2,171 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 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 Muskegon County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,017 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 812 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 27.5% local, 58.1% state, and 14.3% 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 66/100, ranked #113 of 702 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 353.9:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 63.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.0% White, 24.0% African American, 9.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Orchard View High School, with a diversity index of 64.3/100.
Its largest campus is Cardinal Elementary, enrolling 611 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Orchard View Community Education, at 134 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Cardinal Elementary accounts for 28.1% of all Orchard View Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Orchard View Schools-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.
Orchard View Schools school enrollment varies 4.6× across entities
Orchard View Schools school enrollment ranges from 134 students (lowest) to 611 students (highest), a spread of 477 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.
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.
Orchard View Schools student-counselor ratio is 354:1 — 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.
Orchard View Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 63.2% — 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.