Public school / Middle
Dowagiac Middle School
Dowagiac, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 261215004918
- District
- Dowagiac Union School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dowagiac Middle School is a public middle school in Dowagiac, Michigan, run by Dowagiac Union School District. It enrols 408 students — the 49706th 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
408
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
17.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
71.8%
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 Dowagiac Union School District
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.
- 1Union High School532 students
- 2Dowagiac Middle School408 students
- 3Justus Gage Elementary School274 students
- 4Patrick Hamilton Elementary236 students
- 5Kincheloe Elementary School221 students
- 6Sister Lakes Elementary School181 students
- 7Pathfinders Alternative Ed38 students
- Enrollment+6.0%
- Teachers+4.5%
- Students per teacher+4.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+21.1%
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