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Brick Elementary School
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M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Brick Elementary School
Set in YPSILANTI, Michigan, Brick Elementary School is an average-sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Lincoln Consolidated School District. It instructs 500 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% bigger than the state mean of about 369.
Lincoln Consolidated School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,122 students. Brick Elementary School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Brick Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 29% Black, 15% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Washtenaw County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Washtenaw County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Brick Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.6%.
In the area at large, Washtenaw County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,180, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washtenaw County's 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students), Brick Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Bishop Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brick Elementary School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.
Brick Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.
Five-year trend. Brick Elementary School's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 500). White enrollment moved from 60% to 45% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.
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