Bailey Lake Elementary School

Bailey Lake Elementary School is an average-sized K-5 school in CLARKSTON, Michigan, one of the schools within Clarkston Community School District. The school caters to 522 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Bailey Lake Elementary School sits 41% above that benchmark.

Bailey Lake Elementary School is one of 13 schools operated by Clarkston Community School District, a district that educates 6,670 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Bailey Lake Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bailey Lake Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.9%, the actual is 63.5%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Oakland County) records that median household income runs about $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Bailey Lake Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Clarkston High School, around 1.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bailey Lake Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.2%.

Bailey Lake Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bailey Lake Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 528 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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