Addams Elementary and ECC

Set in ROYAL OAK, Michigan, Addams Elementary and ECC is a mid-tier elementary campus, part of Royal Oak Schools. It serves 436 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Royal Oak Schools runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,727 students. Addams Elementary and ECC is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Addams Elementary and ECC logs that 77% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 9% Black, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Addams Elementary and ECC tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Addams Elementary and ECC sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 47.6%.

Around the school, census data for Oakland County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Addams Elementary and ECC is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Northwood Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Addams Elementary and ECC ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 55.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Addams Elementary and ECC has shrank 7%, going from 469 students in 2018 to 436 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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