Donelson Hills Elementary School

Located at 2690 WEWOKA RD, in WATERFORD, Michigan, Donelson Hills Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that hosts 392 students (grades K through 5), operated by Waterford School District.

Within Waterford School District, which oversees 17 schools and 6,641 students, Donelson Hills Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Donelson Hills Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 33% White, 22% Black, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 5% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Donelson Hills Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at Donelson Hills Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Donelson Hills Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Oakland County put the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, 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 Donelson Hills Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Oakside Prep Academy, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Donelson Hills Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 26%: 527 students in 2018 compared to 392 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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