Erie Elementary School

Erie Elementary School is an elementary school of average-sized scale in CLINTON TWP, Michigan, operated by Chippewa Valley Schools, instructing 474 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Erie Elementary School sits 28% larger than that benchmark.

Chippewa Valley Schools comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 14,504 students; Erie Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Erie Elementary School lists that 75% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 12% Black, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Macomb County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Erie Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Erie Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 36% of students at Erie Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Erie Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.2%; actual is 36.7%, a gap of -13.5 points.

In the broader community, Macomb County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,837, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Erie Elementary School is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

Chippewa Valley Adult and Mohegan Alt Educ is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Erie Elementary School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Erie Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Erie Elementary School has edged down 7%, going from 512 students in 2018 to 474 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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