Erickson Elementary

As a close-knit elementary campus in YPSILANTI, Michigan, Erickson Elementary hosts 271 students from grades 1 through 6, one of the schools within Ypsilanti Community Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Erickson Elementary sits 27% below that benchmark.

Ypsilanti Community Schools runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 3,260 students. Erickson Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Erickson Elementary reports that 61% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest reads as 17% White, 15% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Washtenaw County's rate of about 34%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Washtenaw County) reports that median household earnings sit near $89,180, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washtenaw County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students), of which Erickson Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: YPSI Connected Community School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 28%: 377 students in 2018 compared to 271 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 67% to 61%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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