Public school / Primary
Dawson Elementary School
Allegan, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 260222003967
- District
- Allegan Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dawson Elementary School is a public primary school in Allegan, Michigan, run by Allegan Public Schools. It enrols 297 students — the 66007th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
297
Teachers
18.0
Students per teacher
16.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
62.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Allegan Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Allegan High School648 students
- 2Le White Middle School447 students
- 3Pine Trails Elementary School344 students
- 4Dawson Elementary School297 students
- 5West Ward Elementary School246 students
- 6Allegan Alternative High School123 students
- 7Allegan Online K846 students
- 8North Ward Elementary School34 students
- Enrollment−22.9%
- Teachers−18.2%
- Students per teacher−2.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+5.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory