Haviland Elementary School

Haviland Elementary School is an elementary-level community of small scale in WATERFORD, Michigan, run under Waterford School District, caters to 308 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Haviland Elementary School is one of 17 schools operated by Waterford School District, a district that works with 6,641 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Haviland Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 57%; the rest looks like 20% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Haviland Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Haviland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.8%, the actual is 48.6%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Oakland County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,760, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Haviland Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Knudsen Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Haviland Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

Haviland Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Haviland Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 347 (now 308). Over the same period, the White share declined from 71% to 57%.

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