Davison ElementaryMiddle School

Set in DETROIT, Michigan, Davison ElementaryMiddle School is a high-enrollment elementary school, overseen by Detroit Public Schools Community District. It serves 765 students across grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 107% bigger than typical.

Detroit Public Schools Community District comprises 103 schools with combined enrollment of 48,448 students; Davison ElementaryMiddle School is among them.

Demographically, Davison ElementaryMiddle School shows that the largest single group is Asian at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 46% Black, 2% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 4% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at Davison ElementaryMiddle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Davison ElementaryMiddle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.7%, the actual is 31.8%, a residual of +5.1 points.

Around the school, Wayne County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,539, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Davison ElementaryMiddle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bridge Academy West, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Davison ElementaryMiddle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Davison ElementaryMiddle School at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 20.0%.

Davison ElementaryMiddle School operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Davison ElementaryMiddle School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 784 (now 765). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 51% to 46%.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.