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Public school / Middle

Pennfield Middle School

Battle Creek, Michigan

NCES ID
262781006359
District
Pennfield Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Pennfield Middle School is a public middle school in Battle Creek, Michigan, run by Pennfield Schools. It enrols 446 students — the 44448th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.

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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

446students

44448th nationally, tied with 145

Teachers

21.0FTE

62587th nationally, tied with 2,266

Students per teacher

21.2students

82203rd nationally, tied with 236

Free or reduced-price lunch

57.8%percent

42670th nationally, tied with 111

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.

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Within Pennfield 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Pennfield Senior High School653 students
  2. 2Pennfield Dunlap Elementary469 students
  3. 3Pennfield Middle School446 students
  4. 4Pennfield Purdy School219 students
  5. 5North Pennfield Elementary199 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Michigan median across 3,559 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+15.8%
  • Teachers−4.5%
  • Students per teacher+24.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−2.5%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.