Clayton H Symons Elementary School

Clayton H Symons Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary school in MILAN, Michigan, run under Milan Area Schools. Current enrollment sits at 356 students spanning grades 2 through 4.

Milan Area Schools comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,720 students; Clayton H Symons Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Clayton H Symons Elementary School reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Clayton H Symons Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clayton H Symons Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Monroe County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,335 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Monroe County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,286 students), of which Clayton H Symons Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Milan Alternative Education, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Clayton H Symons Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Clayton H Symons Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 435 (now 356). White enrollment moved from 86% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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