Emma Murphy Elementary School

Located at 1100 PRATT RD, in METAMORA, Michigan, Emma Murphy Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community that caters to 374 students (grades K through 5), run under Lapeer Community Schools.

Within Lapeer Community Schools, which oversees 8 schools and 4,064 students, Emma Murphy Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Emma Murphy Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 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. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lapeer County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Emma Murphy Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of -4.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lapeer County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,306 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Emma Murphy Elementary School is one of 27 public schools in Lapeer County (combined enrollment of about 10,962 students).

The closest other public school is STRIVE Transition Program, roughly 5.1 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Emma Murphy Elementary School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 10%: 340 students in 2018 compared to 374 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 93% to 88% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

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