Daly School

Daly School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Michigan, with an address in INKSTER. The school counted 175 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 6. That is 53% below the average of about 369 students for elementary schools in Michigan.

Daly School is one of the 6 schools that make up Westwood Community School District (1,502 students in total).

The share of Black students at Daly School is 78%, a majority. After that, the student body is 14% White, 5% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Wayne County is about 37% Black. A diversity index of 37% means there is a 37% chance two randomly chosen students at Daly School are from different groups.

Staffing at Daly School comes to 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.5:1. Elementary schools in Michigan have an average ratio of 15.8:1. On the income side, 93% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Wayne County averages 66%, lower than here.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Wayne County show that the median household earns about $60,539 a year, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 16%. Across Wayne County, 573 public schools serve about 259,786 students.

Westwood North Academy is less than a tenth of a mile from Daly School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

NCES describes the area around Daly 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.

In 2020-21, Daly School enrolled 175; in 2024-25, 175. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 17.5:1, from 19.4:1.

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