Allendale Elementary School

Allendale Elementary School is an elementary school of big scale in MELVINDALE, Michigan, one of the schools within Melvindale-Northern Allen Park Schools, enrolling 914 students in grades 2 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 148% bigger than the state mean of about 369.

Within Melvindale-Northern Allen Park Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 2,983 students, Allendale Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Allendale Elementary School records that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 19% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.2:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Allendale Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 26.7%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wayne County) logs that median household income runs about $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Allendale Elementary School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

Nearest neighbor: Julian O Strong Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Allendale Elementary School.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 897 students in 2018 compared to 914 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share grew from 63% to 70%. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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