Frank E Weiss Elem School

Set in WOODHAVEN, Michigan, Frank E Weiss Elem School is an intimate elementary campus, one of the schools within Gibraltar School District. It educates 285 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Frank E Weiss Elem School sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

Gibraltar School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,615 students. Frank E Weiss Elem School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Frank E Weiss Elem School lists that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Black, 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

In terms of school funding signals, Frank E Weiss Elem School shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 41% of students at Frank E Weiss Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Frank E Weiss Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.1%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Wayne County put median household earnings sit near $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. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Frank E Weiss Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hunter Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Frank E Weiss Elem School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 291 students in 2018 compared to 285 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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