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Watersmeet, Michigan - 1 schools
At $29,444 per pupil, Watersmeet Township School District ranks #12 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
150
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$29,444
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Watersmeet Township School District operates 1 public schools serving 150 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 Gogebic County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $29,444 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 83 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 65.5% local, 11.0% state, and 23.5% 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 130:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 60.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 26.2% White, 0.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Watersmeet Township School, enrolling 130 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Watersmeet Township School accounts for 86.7% of all Watersmeet Township School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Watersmeet Township School District a distant remainder — means Watersmeet Township School District-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Watersmeet Township School District reports 65.3% 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.
Watersmeet Township School District student-counselor ratio is 130:1 — 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.
Watersmeet Township School District chronic absenteeism rate is 60.0% — 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 Watersmeet Township School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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