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How has Adlai Stevenson Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
527
Elementary
DISTRICT 371 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 263231006771
Adlai Stevenson Elementary School
24500 LARKINS ST, SOUTHFIELD, MI 48033 · (248) 746-8840 · Oakland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL527 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Michigan public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
345 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 87 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
36.0%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
21.7%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.3%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Adlai Stevenson Elementary School
Adlai Stevenson Elementary School's state test result (31.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adlai Stevenson Elementary School this school | 527 | 65.5% | 31.0% |
| Alice M Birney K8 School SOUTHFIELD | 452 | 62.8% | N/A |
| University Preparatory Science and Math Elementary DETROIT | 476 | 70.8% | 23.3% |
| Metro Charter Academy ROMULUS | 421 | 69.4% | 44.1% |
| Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies DETROIT | 715 | 66.4% | 42.9% |
| Thompson K8 International Academy SOUTHFIELD | 544 | 64.5% | 26.0% |
Matched among Michigan elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Adlai Stevenson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Oakland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #926 of 1,085 | #138 of 147 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #1,031 of 1,072 | #141 of 144 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #850 of 1,139 | #138 of 157 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 527 | #215 of 1,630 | #25 of 178 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #1,257 of 1,424 | #155 of 170 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.2% | #1,191 of 1,424 | #159 of 170 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.5% | #588 of 1,563 | #25 of 175 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.4% | #153 of 440 | #18 of 48 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
527
+136 (+35%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 411
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 15.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 527 | 28 | 18.8:1 | 65% (345) |
| 2023-24 | 498 | 26 | 19.1:1 | 76% (376) |
| 2022-23 | 444 | 27 | 16.4:1 | 71% (315) |
| 2020-21 | 391 | 25 | 15.6:1 | 60% (234) |
| 2017-18 | 469 | 23.5 | 20.0:1 | 75% (351) |
| 2015-16 | 335 | 17 | 19.7:1 | 71% (239) |
| 2010-11 | 469 | 24 | 19.5:1 | 67% (314) |
| 2000-01 | 428 | 26 | 16.5:1 | 36% (154) |
| 1990-91 | 411 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Adlai Stevenson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (469 to 527); teachers up 19% (23.5 to 28).
About Adlai Stevenson Elementary School
Adlai Stevenson Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school based in SOUTHFIELD, Michigan. It enrolled 527 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 43% higher than the average for elementary schools in Michigan, which is about 369.
Southfield Public School District oversees Adlai Stevenson Elementary School and 12 other schools, with 4,692 students in total.
Black students are the large majority at Adlai Stevenson Elementary School, with 91% of enrollment. Other groups include 3% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Oakland County residents are about 13% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Adlai Stevenson Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 16%.
Its 28 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 18.8:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Michigan is 15.8:1, lower than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 65% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 32% average among public schools in Oakland County.
allk12 grades Adlai Stevenson Elementary School a D. The grade compares the school only with Michigan public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, Adlai Stevenson Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Michigan schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 31.0%; the prediction is 37.3%.
Oakland County has about 1,279,825 residents, and median household income is about $97,760, about 51% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 345 public schools in Oakland County, with a combined enrollment of about 169,926.
The school nearest to Adlai Stevenson Elementary School is Faxon Academy, at a distance of about 0.9 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 527 was 35% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 391. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (18.8:1) than in 2020-21 (15.6:1).
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Oakland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,279,825
Census ACS
Median income
$97,760
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
345
169,926 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Southfield Public School District
- Southfield High School for the Arts and TechnologyHigh · 1,049 students
- Thompson K8 International AcademyElementary · 544 students
- Alice M Birney K8 SchoolElementary · 452 students
- Morris Adler Elementary SchoolElementary · 355 students
- Glenn W Levey Middle SchoolMiddle · 354 students
- University Middle School AcademyMiddle · 338 students
Other schools in SOUTHFIELD
- Lighthouse Connections AcademyCombined · 2,056 students
- Southfield High School for the Arts and TechnologyHigh · 1,049 students
- Laurus AcademyElementary · 791 students
- Bradford AcademyCombined · 678 students
- Thompson K8 International AcademyElementary · 544 students
- Dr Joseph F Pollack Academic Center of ExcellenceElementary · 520 students
Other Adlai Stevenson Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Adlai Stevenson Elementary. Adlai Stevenson Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Adlai Stevenson Elementary SchoolElk Grove Village, IL · 513 students
Nearby schools
- Faxon Academy0.9 mi · 150
- Lighthouse Connections Academy1.0 mi · 2,056
- Alice M Birney K8 School1.1 mi · 452
- McIntyre Elementary School1.3 mi · 162
- Crescent Academy Elementary1.4 mi · 265
- Crescent Academy MiddleHigh School1.5 mi · 145
Frequently asked questions
About Adlai Stevenson Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Adlai Stevenson Elementary School?
Adlai Stevenson Elementary School enrolls approximately 527 students in grades KG-05.
Is Adlai Stevenson Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Adlai Stevenson Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Adlai Stevenson Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Adlai Stevenson Elementary School is approximately 18.8:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Adlai Stevenson Elementary School?
Student demographics at Adlai Stevenson Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 3% Hispanic, 91% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Adlai Stevenson Elementary School?
Adlai Stevenson Elementary School is overseen by Southfield Public School District in Oakland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.