Byron Area Elementary School

As a close-knit K-5 school in BYRON, Michigan, Byron Area Elementary School works with 310 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Byron Area Schools.

Byron Area Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Byron Area Schools, a district that serves 652 students overall.

On demographics, Byron Area Elementary School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Shiawassee County's rate of about 45%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Byron Area Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 49.3%, a residual of +8.7 points.

Across the wider county, Shiawassee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,404 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Shiawassee County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,105 students), of which Byron Area Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Byron Area High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Byron Area Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Byron Area Elementary School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Byron Area Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 375 (now 310). Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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