Grant Elementary School

Grant Elementary School is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in LIVONIA, Michigan, run under Livonia Public Schools School District, with 470 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 27% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Grant Elementary School is one of 25 schools operated by Livonia Public Schools School District, a district that hosts 12,986 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Grant Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest comes out to 7% Black, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grant Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.1%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Grant Elementary School is one.

Franklin High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Grant Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grant Elementary School has edged down 12%, going from 532 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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