Emerson Middle School

Emerson Middle School is a mid-tier middle school in LIVONIA, Michigan, part of Livonia Public Schools School District. The school caters to 638 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Emerson Middle School sits 27% larger than that benchmark.

Livonia Public Schools School District comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 12,986 students; Emerson Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Emerson Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Emerson Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.1%; Emerson Middle School posts 35.6%, -15.5 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Emerson Middle School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

Cleveland Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Emerson Middle School. On composite proficiency, Emerson Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Emerson Middle School's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 732 (now 638).

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