Deerfield Elementary School

Deerfield Elementary School operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in ROCHESTER HILLS, Michigan, overseen by Avondale School District. Current enrollment sits at 333 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Avondale School District, which oversees 9 schools and 3,798 students, Deerfield Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Deerfield Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 22% Black, 12% Hispanic, 12% Asian. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Deerfield Elementary School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Deerfield Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.2%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of +2.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Oakland County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Deerfield Elementary School is one.

Avondale Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Deerfield Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Deerfield Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.0%.

Deerfield Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Deerfield Elementary School's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 333). The White share of enrollment declined from 65% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.