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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Tri County Senior High School

Howard City, Michigan

NCES ID
263393006961
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Tri County Senior High School is a public high school in Howard City, Michigan, run by Tri County Area Schools. It enrols 539 students — the 32749th 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

539students

32749th nationally, tied with 119

Teachers

30.0FTE

41832nd nationally, tied with 2,155

Students per teacher

18.0students

70374th nationally, tied with 591

Free or reduced-price lunch

48.1%percent

52442nd nationally, tied with 114

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 Tri County Area 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. 1Tri County Senior High School539 students
  2. 2Sand Lake Elementary School392 students
  3. 3Tri County Middle School390 students
  4. 4Macnaughton School388 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+40.0%
  • Teachers+36.4%
  • Students per teacher+5.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−18.9%
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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.