Great Oaks Elementary School

Great Oaks Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary campus in CHESTERFIELD, Michigan, one of the schools within Anchor Bay School District, hosts 468 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 27% larger than typical.

Across the 10 schools in Anchor Bay School District (5,295 students total), Great Oaks Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Great Oaks Elementary School records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Great Oaks Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Great Oaks Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.2%, the actual is 58.8%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Macomb County put median household income runs about $77,837, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Great Oaks Elementary School is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

Nearest neighbor: Middle School East, around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Great Oaks Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 6%: 440 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 93% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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