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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Pine River Elementary School

China, Michigan

NCES ID
261242004937
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Pine River Elementary School is a public primary school in China, Michigan, run by East China School District. It enrols 379 students — the 54111th 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

379students

54111th nationally, tied with 167

Teachers

24.0FTE

55524th nationally, tied with 2,299

Students per teacher

15.8students

54892nd nationally, tied with 904

Free or reduced-price lunch

35.4%percent

64823rd nationally, tied with 90

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 East China 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1St Clair High School767 students
  2. 2St Clair Middle School643 students
  3. 3Marine City High School523 students
  4. 4Pine River Elementary School379 students
  5. 5Belle River Elementary School376 students
  6. 6Gearing Elementary School365 students
  7. 7Marine City Middle School292 students
  8. 8Palms Elementary School237 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−1.6%
  • Teachers+9.1%
  • Students per teacher−7.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−40.3%
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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.