Bemis Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in TROY, Michigan, Bemis Elementary School serves 441 students from grades K through 5, run under Troy School District.

Bemis Elementary School is one of 21 schools operated by Troy School District, a district that teaches 11,596 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Bemis Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Asian, at 56% of enrollment; the rest looks like 31% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Oakland County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bemis Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Oakland County) records that the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Bemis Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Boulan Park Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bemis Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 68.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 551 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 67% to 56% across the same window.

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