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Saginaw, Michigan - 8 schools
An equity score of 39/100 ranks Saginaw Township Community Schools #513 of 707 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,035 per pupil, Saginaw Township Community Schools ranks #547 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,596
Total Enrollment
8
Schools
$12,035
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Saginaw Township Community Schools operates 8 public schools serving 4,596 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 combined, 2 high, 1 middle schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. 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 $12,035 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 28.5% local, 59.6% state, and 12.0% 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 39/100, ranked #513 of 707 in Michigan against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 8 schools offering Advanced Placement (11 AP courses district-wide), a 460.6:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 43.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 47.1% White, 21.3% Hispanic or Latino, 20.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Mackinaw High School, with a diversity index of 71.9/100.
Its largest campus is Heritage High School, enrolling 1,313 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Mackinaw High School, at 138 students, a 10x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Heritage High School accounts for 28.6% of all Saginaw Township Community Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Saginaw Township Community Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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 Township Community Schools school enrollment varies 9.5× across entities
Saginaw Township Community Schools school enrollment ranges from 138 students (lowest) to 1,313 students (highest), a spread of 1,175 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Saginaw Township Community Schools has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 56.1% 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 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.
Saginaw Township Community Schools student-counselor ratio is 461:1 — 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.
Saginaw Township Community Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 43.3% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Saginaw Township Community Schools's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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