Arrowwood Elementary School

Arrowwood Elementary School is one of the mid-sized primary schools in SAGINAW, Michigan, run under Saginaw Township Community Schools, with 445 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 21% above typical.

Saginaw Township Community Schools comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,447 students; Arrowwood Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Arrowwood Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 24% Hispanic, 22% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Saginaw County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Arrowwood Elementary School records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 59% of students at Arrowwood Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Arrowwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 28.6%, a residual of -11.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Saginaw County shows median household earnings sit near $60,622, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Saginaw County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,621 students), of which Arrowwood Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: White Pine Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Arrowwood Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 53.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Arrowwood Elementary School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 445). The White share of enrollment decreased from 50% to 44% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Arrowwood Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.