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Lawton Community School District, MI: schools, enrollment and spending
Lawton Community School District runs 4 public schools with 1,027 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 15.8 students per teacher is 1.1 lower than the Michigan figure of 16.9.
At a glance
- Schools
- 4
- Students
- 1,027
- Teachers (FTE)
- 65
- Students per teacher
- 15.8
- MI: 16.9 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 101 Primary Way, Lawton, MI 49065
- Phone
- (269)624-7901
- County
- Van Buren County
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 2621240
- State district ID
- MI-80140
- Total staff (FTE)
- 141
- School counselors (FTE)
- 2.0About 514 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 6.0
Students per teacher compared
This district15.8
Michigan16.9
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (973), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $14.2 million
- Federal revenue
- $1.8 million
- State revenue
- $8.2 million
- Local revenue
- $4.2 million
- Total spending
- $15.6 million
- Spending per pupil
- $16,043
- Salaries
- $5.2 million33.1% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $23.1 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 12.6%
- State: 58.0%
- Local: 29.4%
Michigan overall
- Federal: 12.3%
- State: 53.1%
- Local: 34.6%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$16,043
Michigan$14,795
United States$16,826
Schools in Lawton Community School District
By level: 2 high, 1 middle, 1 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Lawton Accelerated Academic CenterCEP school | High | 5 to 12 | 26 | |
| Lawton Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 4 | 397 | 12.8 |
| Lawton High SchoolCEP school | High | 8 to 12 | 279 | 19.9 |
| Lawton Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 5 to 8 | 325 | 18.1 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Van Buren County
- Mattawan Consolidated School 3,545 students
- Paw Paw Public School District 2,146 students
- South Haven Public Schools 1,815 students
- Hartford Public Schools 1,338 students
- Michigan Online School 1,268 students
- Bloomingdale Public School District 953 students
- Bangor Public Schools (Van Buren) 951 students
- Gobles Public School District 786 students
- Decatur Public Schools 755 students
- Van Buren ISD 740 students
- Lawrence Public Schools 393 students
- Covert Public Schools 324 students
- Bangor Township S/D #8 School District 24 students
More in Michigan
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.