David Hicks School

David Hicks School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in INKSTER, Michigan, run under Wayne-Westland Community School District. The school hosts 466 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so David Hicks School sits 26% above that benchmark.

Wayne-Westland Community School District runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,980 students. David Hicks School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, David Hicks School reports that 78% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest is composed of 14% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting David Hicks School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which David Hicks School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lathers Early Childhood and Kindergarten Center, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 20%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 466 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 73% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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