Public school / Primary
Joseph C Sterling Elementary School
Carleton, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 260198003943
- District
- Airport Community Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Joseph C Sterling Elementary School is a public primary school in Carleton, Michigan, run by Airport Community Schools. It enrols 320 students — the 62819th 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
320
Teachers
19.0
Students per teacher
16.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
44.4%
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 Airport Community 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.
- 1Airport Senior High School775 students
- 2Wagar 78 Middle School427 students
- 3Wagar 56 Middle School410 students
- 4Joseph C Sterling Elementary School320 students
- 5Loren Eyler Elementary School296 students
- 6Fred W Ritter Elementary School280 students
- 7Henry Niedermeier Elementary School265 students
- 8Airport Center for Education62 students
- Enrollment−16.9%
- Teachers−13.6%
- Students per teacher−1.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−25.1%
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