Enrollment
317
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TAYLOR SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 263354006889
Blair Moody Elementary School
8280 HIPP ST, TAYLOR, MI 48180 · (313) 295-5807 · Wayne County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL317 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Michigan public elementary schools
- DTest 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
16.1:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
251 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 55%
Community
0
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 | 60 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
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M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
33.3%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
28.9%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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
29.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.2%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Blair Moody Elementary School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blair Moody Elementary School this school | 317 | 79.2% | 29.6% |
| Holland Elementary School TAYLOR | 310 | 79.0% | 39.7% |
| Taylor Parks Elementary School TAYLOR | 322 | 82.0% | N/A |
| Kinyon Elementary School TAYLOR | 375 | 77.6% | 30.1% |
| Webb Elementary School FERNDALE | 328 | 75.6% | N/A |
| Pardee School DEARBORN HEIGHTS | 337 | 77.2% | N/A |
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 Blair Moody Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Wayne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #951 of 1,085 | #120 of 165 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.9% | #937 of 1,072 | #123 of 165 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #924 of 1,139 | #117 of 176 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 317 | #1,017 of 1,630 | #216 of 301 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #735 of 1,424 | #132 of 281 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #177 of 1,424 | #24 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.2% | #382 of 1,563 | #166 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #575 of 979 | #94 of 177 |
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
317
-8 (-2%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 605
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 18.1:1
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 | 317 | 19.7 | 16.1:1 | 79% (251) |
| 2023-24 | 340 | 21.3 | 15.9:1 | 94% (318) |
| 2022-23 | 350 | 24.4 | 14.4:1 | 81% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 325 | 18 | 18.1:1 | 88% (285) |
| 2017-18 | 354 | 21 | 16.9:1 | 82% (289) |
| 2015-16 | 374 | 21 | 17.8:1 | 76% (286) |
| 2010-11 | 287 | 22 | 13.1:1 | 83% (238) |
| 2000-01 | 565 | 29 | 19.5:1 | 36% (203) |
| 1990-91 | 605 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Blair Moody Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (354 to 317); teachers down 6% (21 to 19.7).
About Blair Moody Elementary School
Blair Moody Elementary School is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in TAYLOR, Michigan. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 317 students.
Taylor School District is made up of 12 schools with 5,572 students in all.
About 48% of students at Blair Moody Elementary School are White, the largest single group. Beyond that, enrollment is 33% Black, 11% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. Among Wayne County residents, the White share is about 49%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 65%.
Blair Moody Elementary School lists 19.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 16.1 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 79% of the student body. That is higher than the 66% average for public schools in Wayne County.
Among Michigan public elementary schools, Blair Moody Elementary School outscored 21%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Blair Moody Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (29.6%) and its predicted rate (31.2%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Michigan schools.
Census data for Wayne County show the median household earns about $60,539 a year, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Blair Moody Elementary School, Wayne County has 573 public schools.
Blair Moody Elementary School is about 0.6 miles from Allen Park High School, its nearest public school. Blair Moody Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Blair Moody Elementary School ranks 6th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 29.6% against a local average of 37.7%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (325) and 2024-25 (317). The ratio of students to teachers went from 18.1:1 to 16.1:1 over the same years.
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Wayne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,772,259
Census ACS
Median income
$60,539
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
573
259,786 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Taylor School District
- Taylor High SchoolHigh · 1,371 students
- Robert J West Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Hoover Middle SchoolMiddle · 515 students
- Clarence Randall Elem SchoolElementary · 492 students
- Kinyon Elementary SchoolElementary · 375 students
- Bernice McDowell Elem SchoolElementary · 341 students
Other schools in TAYLOR
- Taylor High SchoolHigh · 1,371 students
- Quest Charter AcademyElementary · 683 students
- Taylor Exemplar AcademyElementary · 660 students
- Robert J West Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Trillium AcademyCombined · 641 students
- Hoover Middle SchoolMiddle · 515 students
Nearby schools
- Allen Park High School0.6 mi · 1,133
- Bennie Elementary School0.7 mi · 513
- Taylor Parks Elementary School0.8 mi · 322
- Clarence Randall Elem School1.1 mi · 492
- Lindemann Elementary School1.1 mi · 639
- Robert J West Middle School1.2 mi · 641
Frequently asked questions
About Blair Moody Elementary SchoolHow large is Blair Moody Elementary School?
Blair Moody Elementary School enrolls approximately 317 students in grades PK-05.
Is Blair Moody Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Blair Moody Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Blair Moody Elementary School have?
Blair Moody Elementary School employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Blair Moody Elementary School?
Student demographics at Blair Moody Elementary School are roughly 48% White, 11% Hispanic, 33% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Blair Moody Elementary School?
Blair Moody Elementary School is overseen by Taylor School District in Wayne County.
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