Education

Battle Creek and Calhoun County offers a wealth of educational opportunities; from Public, Christian, Parochial, Charter and Private K-12 schools for youth. The Parent Dashboard is filled with important information for parents about Michigan Public & Charter schools at https://www.mischooldata.org/dashboard-home/   Most schools offer various sports and art programs, and have before and after school programs. All public schools offer bus transportation. The local commercial bus transportation stops at many locations near the schools.

The K-12 schools offer lunch programs. Exceptional children programs are also offered at most schools, to include pre-college courses in the high schools. Special Education is also provided by most of the public schools.

Adult education offers college, universities, and technical training.

For more information about All school districts in Michigan (greatschools.org), please visit their website. At this website, you can do a search on how to find the annual School Performance.

No DoDDS schools.

Children normally attend:

Calhoun County (Public https://www.calhounisd.org or (Private) schools.

• Battle Creek is a community rich in educational opportunities to include public, parochial, private, charter, Christian, all renowned for their innovation and quality education. Four public and several private school systems in Battle Creek provide a wide range of academic options for students. The Math and Science Center offers classes to exceptional students throughout Battle Creek.

• The Legacy Scholarship for Battle Creek Public Schools, Lakeview School District, and Calhoun Community High School for students enrolled 8^th-12 grade and graduated from one of these schools. Eligibility decreased each year the student attends a school outside of the eligible districts. The scholarship covers Kellogg Community College for up to two years (62 credit hours), mandatory fees, and a book stipend.

https://www.kresa.org or Private) schools.

• The Kalamazoo Public Schools is a vibrant, growing district. It is one of the top five diverse school districts in Michigan. The student to teacher ratio of 17 to 1.
• The Kalamazoo Promise offers a free tuition scholarship for Kalamazoo Public Schools graduates based on the number of years they spent in the school district: from 100 percent for kids who started there in kindergarten to 65 percent for those who spent four years of high school there for any University located in Michigan.

Families can research and compare the schools at the Great Schools website.

Michigan parents have the right to home school their children. The Michigan.gov website provides the Homeschooling in Michigan page that summarizes the Michigan requirements for home schooling. This document summarizes the right to home school in Michigan, whom may home school, reporting process, teacher requirements, course of study, textbooks, required testing, athletics, funding, and additional information. More information is available on the Michigan.gov website at www.michigan.gov/homeschool

There are other excellent resources available to help the families determine if home schooling is for them, support groups, articles, links, other topics (field trips, magazines, record keeping, book stores in Michigan, and more). In addition, https://www.schoolk-12.com has a tuition free K-12 online school available at home.