Elms Road Elementary School

Elms Road Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in SWARTZ CREEK, Michigan, part of Swartz Creek Community Schools, with 420 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5.

Elms Road Elementary School is one of 8 schools operated by Swartz Creek Community Schools, a district that instructs 3,483 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Elms Road Elementary School logs that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Genesee County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Elms Road Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.6%; this one comes in at 29.2%, -14.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Genesee County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,281, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Genesee County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students), Elms Road Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Randels Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elms Road Elementary School has contracted 4%, going from 436 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025. The White share of enrollment expanded from 69% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

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