David Scott Elementary School

David Scott Elementary School is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in DEWITT, Michigan, operated by DeWitt Public Schools, with 473 students on its rolls from grades 2 through 3. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 28% bigger than typical.

DeWitt Public Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,109 students; David Scott Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, David Scott Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school reports 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Clinton County's rate of about 30%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, David Scott Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.5%, the actual is 65.5%, a residual of +5.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Clinton County indicate median household income runs about $88,210, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. David Scott Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in Clinton County (combined enrollment of about 9,640 students).

DeWitt Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around David Scott Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts David Scott Elementary School at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 57.3%.

David Scott Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at David Scott Elementary School has ticked up 5%, going from 450 students in 2018 to 473 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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