Beacon Elementary School

Beacon Elementary School is a primary school of average-sized scale in HARPER WOODS, Michigan, one of the schools within Harper Woods The School District of the City of, caters to 368 students in grades pre-K through 2.

Harper Woods The School District of the City of comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,041 students; Beacon Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Beacon Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). Beyond that, the school lists 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at Beacon Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Beacon Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Harper Woods High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beacon Elementary School has held roughly steady, going from 372 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 7% to 2%. Class-load math has loosened: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.