Hale Creek Elementary School

Hale Creek Elementary School is an elementary campus of small scale in ROMULUS, Michigan, one of the schools within Romulus Community Schools, works with 223 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 40% below typical.

Across the 7 schools in Romulus Community Schools (2,058 students total), Hale Creek Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Hale Creek Elementary School shows that Black students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder reads as 23% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hale Creek Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 26.4%; Hale Creek Elementary School posts 40.4%, +14.0 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate 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%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Hale Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Myers Elementary School, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hale Creek Elementary School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hale Creek Elementary School has declined 25%, going from 298 students in 2018 to 223 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 28% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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