Bird Elementary School

Bird Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school in PLYMOUTH, Michigan, run under Plymouth-Canton Community Schools. Current enrollment sits at 476 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Plymouth-Canton Community Schools comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 15,978 students; Bird Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bird Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Bird Elementary School reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Bird Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.5%; this one delivers 61.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Wayne County shows median household income runs about $60,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Bird Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is West Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bird Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bird Elementary School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 66.0%.

Bird Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bird Elementary School has ticked down 8%, going from 520 students in 2018 to 476 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 87% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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