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Enrollment
458
Elementary
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WARREN CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS·NCES 263519007095
Black Elementary School
14100 HERITAGE RD, STERLING HEIGHTS, MI 48312 · (586) 825-2840 · Macomb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL458 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of Michigan public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
288 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 93 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
31.5%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
36.9%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.4%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Black Elementary School
Black Elementary School's state test result (32.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Elementary School this school | 458 | 62.9% | 32.2% |
| Westwood Elementary School WARREN | 512 | 68.4% | 42.1% |
| Wilkerson Elementary School WARREN | 481 | 57.8% | 32.1% |
| Susick Elementary School TROY | 391 | 61.6% | 29.5% |
| Pinewood Elementary School WARREN | 353 | 61.5% | 45.0% |
| Green Acres Elementary School WARREN | 496 | 72.6% | 29.9% |
Matched among Michigan elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Black Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Macomb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #900 of 1,085 | #82 of 100 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #756 of 1,072 | #61 of 98 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.5% | #959 of 1,139 | #89 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 458 | #415 of 1,630 | #53 of 126 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #433 of 1,424 | #21 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.1% | #154 of 1,424 | #10 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.9% | #636 of 1,563 | #51 of 123 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.2% | #781 of 979 | #57 of 75 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
458
+12 (+3%) vs 2020
+41% since 1990-91, when it was 325
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 15.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 458 | 31 | 14.8:1 | 63% (288) |
| 2023-24 | 468 | 29.8 | 15.7:1 | 73% (343) |
| 2022-23 | 421 | 26.7 | 15.8:1 | 73% (306) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 72% (322) |
| 2017-18 | 483 | 27.1 | 17.8:1 | 58% (280) |
| 2015-16 | 424 | 25 | 17.0:1 | 48% (204) |
| 2010-11 | 393 | 23 | 17.1:1 | 34% (134) |
| 2000-01 | 384 | 21 | 18.3:1 | 8% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 325 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Black Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (483 to 458); teachers up 14% (27.1 to 31).
About Black Elementary School
Black Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan, one of the schools in Warren Consolidated Schools. It reported 458 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 369 students for elementary schools in Michigan.
Warren Consolidated Schools counts 21 schools and 12,338 students, including Black Elementary School.
At Black Elementary School, White students make up the biggest share, 49%. Smaller groups are 26% Black, 16% Asian, 7% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. County-wide, 75% of Macomb County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 66%.
Black Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1, with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Michigan, 15.8:1, is higher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 63% at Black Elementary School. It compares with 52% for public schools in Macomb County.
Among Michigan public elementary schools, Black Elementary School outscored 17%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Black Elementary School, the prediction is 38.4% and the result is 32.2%.
In Macomb County, the median household earns about $77,837 a year, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Across Macomb County, 236 public schools serve about 115,743 students.
Wilde Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Black Elementary School is 4th of 5 nearby schools with test data.
Black Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 3%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 15.9 to 14.8 over 4 years.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Black Elementary School. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Macomb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
879,853
Census ACS
Median income
$77,837
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
236
115,743 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Warren Consolidated Schools
- Warren Mott High SchoolHigh · 1,335 students
- Sterling Heights Senior HSHigh · 1,262 students
- Cousino Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,250 students
- Grissom Middle SchoolMiddle · 703 students
- Carter Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Beer Middle SchoolMiddle · 665 students
Other schools in STERLING HEIGHTS
- Adlai Stevenson High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Henry Ford II High SchoolHigh · 1,663 students
- Sterling Heights Senior HSHigh · 1,262 students
- Bemis Junior High SchoolMiddle · 742 students
- Frank Jeannette Jr High SchoolMiddle · 716 students
- Grissom Middle SchoolMiddle · 703 students
Other Black Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 2 states are named Black Elementary. Black Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 4.
- Black Elementary SchoolCYPRESS, TX · 1,125 students
- Black Elementary SchoolMESQUITE, TX · 587 students
- Black Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 488 students
Nearby schools
- Wilde Elementary School0.7 mi · 496
- Sterling Heights Senior HS1.0 mi · 1,262
- Rockwell Middle School1.3 mi · 66
- Bozymowski Center1.4 mi · 317
- Carter Middle School1.5 mi · 679
- Maple Lane School1.5 mi · 55
Frequently asked questions
About Black Elementary SchoolHow large is Black Elementary School?
Black Elementary School enrolls approximately 458 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Black Elementary School serve?
Black Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Black Elementary School have?
Black Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Black Elementary School?
At Black Elementary School, the student body is approximately 49% White, 3% Hispanic, 26% Black, 16% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Black Elementary School in?
Black Elementary School is part of Warren Consolidated Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.