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West Iron County Public Schools

Iron River, Michigan · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

760
Students enrolled
2
Public schools
50
Classroom teachers (FTE)
15.1:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Kindergarten 58
  • Grade 1 47
  • Grade 2 65
  • Grade 3 63
  • Grade 4 48
  • Grade 5 72
  • Grade 6 56
  • Grade 7 50
  • Grade 8 64
  • Grade 9 62
  • Grade 10 58
  • Grade 11 57
  • Grade 12 60

By race/ethnicity

  • White 86%
  • Two or more races 7%
  • Hispanic/Latino 6%
  • Black or African American <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

59% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 452 of 760 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 53%
  • Reduced-price lunch 7%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$14,946 spent per student on day-to-day operations Michigan median: $14,724 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $9,295
  • Support services $4,844
  • Other (food service, etc.) $807

Where the money comes from

  • Local 35%
  • State 55%
  • Federal 10%

Total revenue $13.5 milliontotal spending $13.6 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

105

District office

601 NICK BAUMGARTNER WAY, Iron River MI 49935

County

Iron County

Official website

NCES District ID

2632910

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About West Iron County Public Schools

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

West Iron County Public Schools is a consolidated system made up of the former Bates Township School, Iron River Public Schools, and the Stambaugh Township Schools. The district was consolidated in 1967. The school district encompasses the cities of Iron River, Caspian, Gaastra, and the townships of Bates, Iron River, and Stambaugh. There are approximately 560 square miles in the district, which requires a considerable amount of transportation. The current K- 12 enrollment as of Feb, 2009 is 949 students.  All teachers in the West Iron County School District are highly qualified according to the standards set by the State of Michigan and the federal government’s No Child Left Behind.
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