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Enrollment
526
Elementary
DISTRICT 499 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHIPPEWA VALLEY SCHOOLS·NCES 260957000200
Cherokee Elementary School
42900 RIVERGATE DR, CLINTON TWP, MI 48038 · (586) 723-4800 · Macomb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL526 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of Michigan public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
19.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
212 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 102 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (102).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
47.6%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
36.1%
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 36 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
39.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 Cherokee Elementary School
Cherokee Elementary School's state test result (39.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee Elementary School this school | 526 | 40.3% | 39.3% |
| Rodgers Elementary School SAINT CLAIR SHORES | 534 | 44.0% | 32.9% |
| Salk Elementary School CLINTON TOWNSHIP | 455 | 37.1% | 43.4% |
| Erie Elementary School CLINTON TWP | 474 | 36.3% | 36.7% |
| Seymour Elementary School FLUSHING | 498 | 38.8% | 49.6% |
| Central Elementary School FLUSHING | 487 | 40.7% | 48.2% |
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 Cherokee Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Macomb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #739 of 1,085 | #56 of 100 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #771 of 1,072 | #64 of 98 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.6% | #558 of 1,139 | #42 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 526 | #216 of 1,630 | #26 of 126 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.9:1 | #1,337 of 1,424 | #113 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.2% | #493 of 1,424 | #56 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.3% | #1,050 of 1,563 | #91 of 123 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.8% | #557 of 979 | #36 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
526
-38 (-7%) vs 2020
-26% since 2000-01, when it was 711
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
was 19.4:1
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 | 526 | 26.5 | 19.9:1 | 40% (212) |
| 2023-24 | 544 | 25.1 | 21.7:1 | 48% (259) |
| 2022-23 | 548 | 26.1 | 21.0:1 | 48% (261) |
| 2020-21 | 564 | 29 | 19.4:1 | 39% (218) |
| 2017-18 | 590 | 27 | 21.9:1 | 41% (244) |
| 2015-16 | 592 | 30 | 19.7:1 | 37% (217) |
| 2010-11 | 631 | 29 | 21.8:1 | 29% (186) |
| 2000-01 | 711 | 31 | 22.9:1 | 10% (73) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cherokee Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (590 to 526); teachers down 2% (27 to 26.5).
About Cherokee Elementary School
Cherokee Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of CLINTON TWP, Michigan. It reports enrollment of 526 students in pre-K through 5. Across elementary schools in Michigan, the average enrollment is about 369.
The district, Chippewa Valley Schools, operates 20 schools serving 14,504 students.
More than half of enrollment at Cherokee Elementary School is White: 70%. The remaining shares are 13% Black, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 48%.
Cherokee Elementary School lists 26.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 19.9 students per teacher. The gap from the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan is 4.0 students per teacher. About 40% of students at Cherokee Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Macomb County is 52%.
Cherokee Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 21% of Michigan public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Cherokee Elementary School is -9.1 points: 39.3% actual, 48.4% predicted.
For the population of Macomb County, median household income comes to about $77,837, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Macomb County counts 236 public schools with about 115,743 students.
Measured in a straight line, Chippewa Valley Adult and Mohegan Alt Educ is about 0.4 miles from Cherokee Elementary School. The five-mile area around Cherokee Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 38 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about special education services, counseling, and support programs at Cherokee Elementary School. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Chippewa Valley Schools
- Dakota High SchoolHigh · 2,476 students
- Chippewa Valley High SchoolHigh · 2,162 students
- Seneca Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,078 students
- Wyandot Middle SchoolMiddle · 844 students
- Iroquois Middle SchoolMiddle · 814 students
- Shawnee Elementary SchoolElementary · 662 students
Other schools in CLINTON TWP
- Chippewa Valley High SchoolHigh · 2,162 students
- Wyandot Middle SchoolMiddle · 844 students
- Algonquin Middle SchoolMiddle · 542 students
- Huron Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
- Ottawa Elementary SchoolElementary · 519 students
- Erie Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
Other Cherokee Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 12 states are named Cherokee Elementary. Cherokee Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 17.
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolCatoosa, OK · 857 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolLiberty Twp, OH · 791 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolParadise Valley, AZ · 690 students
- CHEROKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHARDY, AR · 581 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolAlexandria, LA · 576 students
Nearby schools
- Chippewa Valley Adult and Mohegan Alt Educ0.4 mi · 143
- Lutz School for Work Experience0.5 mi · 134
- Erie Elementary School0.6 mi · 474
- International Academy of Macomb0.7 mi · 461
- Chippewa Valley High School0.9 mi · 2,162
- Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center School1.4 mi · 23
Frequently asked questions
About Cherokee Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Cherokee Elementary School?
Cherokee Elementary School enrolls approximately 526 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Cherokee Elementary School serve?
Cherokee Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cherokee Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cherokee Elementary School is approximately 19.9:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Cherokee Elementary School?
Student demographics at Cherokee Elementary School are roughly 70% White, 6% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Cherokee Elementary School public or private?
Cherokee Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chippewa Valley Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.