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Saginaw, Michigan - 1 schools
At $11,375 per pupil, Saginaw Academy of Excellence ranks #662 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
134
Total Enrollment
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$11,375
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Saginaw Academy of Excellence operates 1 public schools serving 134 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Saginaw County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,375 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 0.1% local, 73.3% state, and 26.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Its largest campus is Saginaw Academy of Excellence, enrolling 134 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Saginaw Academy of Excellence accounts for 100.0% of all Saginaw Academy of Excellence student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Saginaw Academy of Excellence a distant remainder — means Saginaw Academy of Excellence-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Saginaw Academy of Excellence has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 91.8% 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). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding 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.
Comparisons are relative to Saginaw Academy of Excellence's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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