Dekeyser Elementary School

Dekeyser Elementary School, a moderately sized elementary school in STERLING HTS, Michigan, one of the schools within Utica Community Schools, teaches 512 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Dekeyser Elementary School sits 39% larger than that benchmark.

Utica Community Schools comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 25,574 students; Dekeyser Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Dekeyser Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Macomb County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Dekeyser Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dekeyser Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.5%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of +3.2 points.

In the area at large, Macomb County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,837, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Dekeyser Elementary School is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

The closest other public school is Oakbrook Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dekeyser Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Dekeyser Elementary School's enrollment has fell 6% since 2018, when it stood at 543 (now 512). Class-load math has tightened: from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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