Bishop Elementary School

Bishop Elementary School is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in YPSILANTI, Michigan, part of Lincoln Consolidated School District, instructing 486 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 32% bigger than typical.

Bishop Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Lincoln Consolidated School District, a district that caters to 3,122 students overall.

Demographically, Bishop Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Black, 16% Hispanic, 15% multiracial. By comparison, Washtenaw County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Bishop Elementary School reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Bishop Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washtenaw County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bishop Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.9%; Bishop Elementary School posts 26.6%, -14.2 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Washtenaw County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,180 per year, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Bishop Elementary School is one of 104 public schools in Washtenaw County (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students).

Brick Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bishop Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

Bishop Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bishop Elementary School has showed little movement, going from 489 students in 2018 to 486 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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