Harvest Elementary School

Harvest Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in SALINE, Michigan, part of Saline Area Schools, with 439 students on its rolls from grades K through 3.

Across the 8 schools in Saline Area Schools (4,596 students total), Harvest Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Harvest Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 9% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Harvest Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Washtenaw County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Harvest 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 61.7%; Harvest Elementary School posts 75.5%, +13.7 points above that line.

In the area at large, Washtenaw County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,180, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Harvest Elementary School is one of 104 public schools in Washtenaw County (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students).

Saline High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harvest Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harvest Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Harvest Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 488 (now 439). The White share of enrollment contracted from 84% to 73% over that span.

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