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Public school / Primary

Rapid City Elementary School

Rapid City, Michigan

NCES ID
262005005686
District
Kalkaska Public Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Rapid City Elementary School is a public primary school in Rapid City, Michigan, run by Kalkaska Public Schools. It enrols 96 students — the 87625th 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

96students

87625th nationally, tied with 108

Teachers

7.0FTE

87274th nationally, tied with 1,180

Students per teacher

13.7students

34874th nationally, tied with 877

Free or reduced-price lunch

92.7%percent

10585th nationally, tied with 81

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 Kalkaska 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Kalkaska High School449 students
  2. 2Birch Street Elementary School354 students
  3. 3Kalkaska Middle School304 students
  4. 4Cherry Street Intermediate School176 students
  5. 5Rapid City Elementary School96 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−75.1%
  • Teachers−68.2%
  • Students per teacher−19.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+56.3%
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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.