Public school / High
Douglas R Welch High School
Ionia, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 261925001313
- District
- Ionia Public Schools
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Douglas R Welch High School is a public high school in Ionia, Michigan, run by Ionia Public Schools. It enrols 83 students — the 88832nd 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
83
Teachers
2.0
Students per teacher
41.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
78.3%
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 Ionia 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.
- 1Ionia High School805 students
- 2Ionia Middle School664 students
- 3Aa Rather School321 students
- 4Jefferson School315 students
- 5Rb Boyce Elementary School264 students
- 6Twin Rivers Elementary School188 students
- 7Emerson School172 students
- 8Douglas R Welch High School83 students
- Enrollment−78.4%
- Teachers−90.9%
- Students per teacher+144.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+32.0%
Where this sits
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