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What's the biggest difference between Bruce Collins Elementary School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
426
Elementary
DISTRICT 523 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UTICA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 263447007014
Bruce Collins Elementary School
12900 GRAND HAVEN DR, STERLING HEIGHTS, MI 48312 · (586) 797-4200 · Macomb County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 56% of Michigan public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
16.3:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
254 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 63 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 8% larger than its 6th grade class (63).
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
48.3%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
46.5%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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
45.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.9%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Bruce Collins Elementary School
Bruce Collins Elementary School's state test result (45.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Collins Elementary School this school | 426 | 59.6% | 45.2% |
| Plumbrook Elementary School STERLING HEIGHTS | 445 | 57.3% | 46.4% |
| Browning Elementary School STERLING HEIGHTS | 368 | 60.1% | 45.6% |
| Dresden Elementary School STERLING HEIGHTS | 420 | 62.4% | 44.7% |
| Renaissance Public School Academy MOUNT PLEASANT | 428 | 58.9% | 43.6% |
| Graebner Elementary School STERLING HEIGHTS | 509 | 53.0% | 41.6% |
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 Bruce Collins Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Macomb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #564 of 1,085 | #32 of 100 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.5% | #517 of 1,072 | #24 of 98 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.3% | #533 of 1,139 | #40 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #544 of 1,630 | #68 of 126 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #794 of 1,424 | #46 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.5% | #665 of 1,424 | #83 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.6% | #710 of 1,563 | #59 of 123 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.4% | #276 of 440 | #26 of 43 |
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
426
-11 (-3%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 371
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 19.0:1
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 | 426 | 26.2 | 16.3:1 | 60% (254) |
| 2023-24 | 421 | 24 | 17.5:1 | 59% (249) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 23.6 | 18.1:1 | 57% (245) |
| 2020-21 | 437 | 23 | 19.0:1 | 46% (202) |
| 2017-18 | 404 | 21.6 | 18.7:1 | 39% (157) |
| 2015-16 | 380 | 21 | 18.1:1 | 37% (141) |
| 2010-11 | 363 | 16 | 22.7:1 | 22% (80) |
| 2000-01 | 373 | 22 | 16.9:1 | 8% (28) |
| 1990-91 | 371 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bruce Collins Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (404 to 426); teachers up 21% (21.6 to 26.2).
About Bruce Collins Elementary School
STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan, is home to Bruce Collins Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. There are 426 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 6.
Across its 37 schools, Utica Community Schools enrolls 25,574 students. Bruce Collins Elementary School is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at Bruce Collins Elementary School, about 78 are White. After that, the student body is 7% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 2% Hispanic. Among Macomb County residents, the White share is about 75%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 38%.
There are 26.2 full-time-equivalent teachers at Bruce Collins Elementary School, giving a ratio of 16.3:1. The ratio is within a point of the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan. By family income, 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Macomb County averages 52%, lower than here.
Among Michigan public elementary schools, Bruce Collins Elementary School outscored 56%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Bruce Collins Elementary School is 5.3 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 45.2% actual, 39.9% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Michigan.
In Macomb County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $77,837 a year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Counting Bruce Collins Elementary School, Macomb County has 236 public schools.
Sterling Heights Senior HS is the nearest public school to Bruce Collins Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. Bruce Collins Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 41.5% proficiency; Bruce Collins Elementary School posts 45.2%.
NCES describes the area around Bruce Collins Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 426, from 437 in 2020-21. The ratio was 19.0:1 in 2020-21 and 16.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Utica Community Schools
- Adlai Stevenson High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Henry Ford II High SchoolHigh · 1,663 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 1,625 students
- Utica High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
- Malow Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,084 students
- Shelby Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,073 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
Nearby schools
- Sterling Heights Senior HS0.6 mi · 1,262
- Oakbrook Elementary School0.7 mi · 535
- Bozymowski Center0.7 mi · 317
- Heritage Junior High School0.8 mi · 431
- Huron Academy Grades K20.9 mi · 273
- Dekeyser Elementary School1.0 mi · 512
Frequently asked questions
About Bruce Collins Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Bruce Collins Elementary School?
Bruce Collins Elementary School enrolls approximately 426 students in grades PK-06.
Is Bruce Collins Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bruce Collins Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bruce Collins Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bruce Collins Elementary School is approximately 16.3:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bruce Collins Elementary School?
At Bruce Collins Elementary School, the student body is approximately 78% White, 2% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Bruce Collins Elementary School in?
Bruce Collins Elementary School is part of Utica Community Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.