Barnard Elementary School

Barnard Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary campus in TROY, Michigan, one of the schools within Troy School District. The school hosts 400 students in grades K through 5.

Troy School District runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 11,596 students. Barnard Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Barnard Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 36% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 18% 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%.

With demographic context factored in, Barnard Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.3%.

In the broader community, census data for Oakland County shows median household earnings sit near $97,760, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Barnard Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Athens High School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Barnard Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barnard Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 63.0%.

Barnard Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Barnard Elementary School's enrollment has fell 20% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 400). The White share of enrollment shrank from 58% to 47% over that span.

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