Emerson ElementaryMiddle School

Emerson ElementaryMiddle School, a mid-tier elementary school in DETROIT, Michigan, run under Detroit Public Schools Community District, teaches 532 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 44% larger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Detroit Public Schools Community District comprises 103 schools with combined enrollment of 48,448 students; Emerson ElementaryMiddle School is among them.

Demographically, Emerson ElementaryMiddle School shows that 98% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Emerson ElementaryMiddle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Emerson ElementaryMiddle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.0%, the actual is 22.7%, a residual of -3.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Emerson ElementaryMiddle School is one campus in the mix.

LincolnKing AdamsYoung 68 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Emerson ElementaryMiddle School.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Emerson ElementaryMiddle School's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 567 (now 532). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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