Childrens Village School

Childrens Village School is a small combined-grade school in PONTIAC, Michigan. It covers kindergarten through 12, with a total enrollment of 56 students. Enrollment is 80% lower than the average for combined schools in Michigan, which is about 281.

Waterford School District operates 17 schools. Combined enrollment is 6,641 students.

Black students are the majority at Childrens Village School, with 55% of enrollment. Other groups make up 32% White, 7% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Oakland County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 58% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Childrens Village School operates with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 4.0:1. On average, combined schools in Michigan have 17.3:1, compared with 4.0:1 here. Childrens Village School reports 52% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is higher than the 32% average for public schools in Oakland County.

Recent Census Bureau figures for Oakland County show that the median household income is $97,760, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 51%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Besides Childrens Village School, Oakland County has 344 other public schools.

Virtual Learning Academy Consortium is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of Childrens Village School, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Childrens Village School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment is down 18% from 2020-21, when Childrens Village School had 68 students, to 2024-25, when it had 56.

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