Bentley Elementary School

As a moderately sized K-5 school in CANTON, Michigan, Bentley Elementary School educates 479 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Plymouth-Canton Community Schools. That puts it 30% bigger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Bentley Elementary School is one of 25 schools operated by Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, a district that educates 15,978 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Bentley Elementary School shows that 60% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 16% Asian, 11% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 20% of students at Bentley Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bentley Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.2%; this one delivers 48.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wayne County) logs that median household earnings sit near $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bentley Elementary School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

Liberty Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bentley Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bentley Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.5%.

Bentley Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 525 students in 2018 compared to 479 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.