Erving Elementary School

Erving Elementary School operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in WOODHAVEN, Michigan, operated by Woodhaven-Brownstown School District. Current enrollment sits at 379 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Erving Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Woodhaven-Brownstown School District, a district that educates 5,296 students overall.

On demographics, Erving Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Black, 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Erving Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Wayne County) logs that median household income runs about $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Erving Elementary School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

The closest other public school is Woodhaven Upper Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Erving Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 488 students in 2018 compared to 379 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 72% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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