Union High School
Public · Grades 9–12 · 507 students
Pathfinders Alternative Ed
501 N Paul St, Dowagiac, MI 49047
Grades
6–12
High
Students
49
Enrolled 2024–25
Students per teacher
20.4 : 1
Full-time teachers
District
Dowagiac Union School District
Cass County
Not graded
Alternative schools serve students whose needs a regular school could not meet, and states hold them to separate accountability rules, so we don't rank them against regular schools. How we grade
About Pathfinders Alternative Ed
Pathfinders Alternative Ed is an alternative high school in Dowagiac, Michigan, serving grades 6–12. It is part of Dowagiac Union School District. The school is located in a town on the edge of a metro area in Cass County.
In the 2024–25 school year, 49 students were enrolled, with about 20.4 students for every full-time teacher. That ratio is larger than the typical Michigan high school (17.9 students per teacher). The school is mostly virtual.
Grades & enrollment
Students per grade, 2024–25Grades 6–12
Location & nearby schools
School details
- Type
- Alternative School · What this means
- Level
- High
- Grades offered
- 6–12
- Enrollment (2024–25)
- 49 students
- Students per teacher
- 20.4 to 1
- Charter school
- No
- Magnet school
- No
- Virtual learning
- Mostly virtual
- Locale
- Town — Fringe
- School district
- Dowagiac Union School District
- County
- Cass County
- NCES school ID
- 261215004920
Schools near Pathfinders Alternative Ed
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Cassopolis High School
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Niles Senior High School
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School data comes from the U.S. Department of Education: the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDGE school locations (2024–25) and Private School Survey (2023–24), the Civil Rights Data Collection (2023–24), and EDFacts (test results 2021–22; graduation and chronic absenteeism 2022–23), plus other public sources. Please contact the school to confirm enrollment, programs, and other details. How we source data.