Dickinson West Elementary School

Dickinson West Elementary School is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in HAMTRAMCK, Michigan, run under Hamtramck School District of the City of, with 422 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Hamtramck School District of the City of runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,874 students. Dickinson West Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Dickinson West Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Asian, 20% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Wayne County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 86% of students at Dickinson West Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dickinson West Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 28.4%; Dickinson West Elementary School posts 15.2%, -13.2 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Wayne County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Dickinson West Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Kosciuszko School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dickinson West Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dickinson West Elementary School has edged down 10%, going from 468 students in 2018 to 422 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 27% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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