Hamlin Elementary School

Hamlin Elementary School is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in ROCHESTER HILLS, Michigan, one of the schools within Rochester Community School District, works with 450 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 22% larger than typical.

Hamlin Elementary School is one of 22 schools operated by Rochester Community School District, a district that serves 14,592 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hamlin Elementary School reports that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 22% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hamlin Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.5%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of -6.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Oakland County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Hamlin Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hampton Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hamlin Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.0%.

Hamlin Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hamlin Elementary School has grew 5%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 63% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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