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Delta Kelly Elementary School
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M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Delta Kelly Elementary School
Delta Kelly Elementary School is an elementary-level community of well-populated scale in OAKLAND, Michigan, overseen by Rochester Community School District, works with 643 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 74% larger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.
Within Rochester Community School District, which oversees 22 schools and 14,592 students, Delta Kelly Elementary School is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Delta Kelly Elementary School logs that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 3% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Delta Kelly Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.9%, the actual is 65.8%, a residual of +0.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, Oakland County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,760, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Delta Kelly Elementary School is one.
Baldwin Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Delta Kelly Elementary School at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 65.6%.
Delta Kelly Elementary School operates from a suburban location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 8%: 595 students in 2018 compared to 643 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 73% to 54% over that span.
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