St. Joseph County Isd operates 1 public schools serving 383 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 St. Joseph County.
The funding mix is 42.7% local, 41.7% state, and 15.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 98.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 76.6% White, 10.9% Hispanic or Latino, 4.7% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pathfinder Educational Center, enrolling 64 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Pathfinder Educational Center accounts for 16.7% of all St. Joseph County Isd student enrollment
That concentration means St. Joseph County 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.
St. Joseph County Isd reports 72.1% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
St. Joseph County Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 98.4% — 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.
St. Joseph County Isd has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 383 students.
What is the demographic composition of St. Joseph County Isd?
St. Joseph County Isd students are 76.6% White, 10.9% Hispanic or Latino, 4.7% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.