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If you had an hour of school board time for Hiawatha Elementary School, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
441
Elementary
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OKEMOS PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 262628007563
Hiawatha Elementary School
1900 JOLLY RD, OKEMOS, MI 48864 · (517) 706-4500 · Ingham County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL441 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of Michigan public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
102 students
DISTRICT 15% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 123 | 28% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 21% smaller than its 4th grade class (94).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Hiawatha Elementary School→Kinawa School
Based on grade levels within Okemos Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
55.2%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
53.4%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.0%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hiawatha Elementary School
Hiawatha Elementary School's state test result (54.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hiawatha Elementary School this school | 441 | 23.1% | 54.3% |
| Bennett Woods Elementary School OKEMOS | 476 | 14.7% | 60.4% |
| Dodson Elementary School CANTON | 470 | 20.4% | 58.2% |
| Bentley Elementary School CANTON | 479 | 20.5% | 48.5% |
| Cornell Elementary School OKEMOS | 439 | 12.3% | 61.9% |
| Uriah H Lawton School ANN ARBOR | 422 | 14.0% | 73.0% |
Matched among Michigan elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hiawatha Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Ingham County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #326 of 1,085 | #8 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #361 of 1,072 | #9 of 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.2% | #361 of 1,139 | #10 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 441 | #475 of 1,630 | #10 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #659 of 1,424 | #25 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.8% | #235 of 1,424 | #25 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.1% | #1,337 of 1,563 | #40 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.8% | #522 of 979 | #16 of 25 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
441
-16 (-4%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 14.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 441 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 23% (102) |
| 2023-24 | 445 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 27% (119) |
| 2022-23 | 443 | 31.7 | 14.0:1 | 26% (115) |
| 2020-21 | 457 | 31 | 14.7:1 | 24% (108) |
| 2017-18 | 500 | 29 | 17.2:1 | 19% (97) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 28 | 16.9:1 | 23% (108) |
| 2010-11 | 368 | 23 | 16.0:1 | 17% (63) |
| 2000-01 | 427 | 21 | 20.3:1 | 1% (4) |
| 1990-91 | 573 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hiawatha Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (500 to 441); teachers down 3% (29 to 28).
About Hiawatha Elementary School
Hiawatha Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in OKEMOS, Michigan. School enrollment was 441 students in 2024-25, in kindergarten through 4.
Okemos Public Schools oversees Hiawatha Elementary School and 6 other schools, with 4,639 students in total.
At 56%, White students outnumber all other groups at Hiawatha Elementary School combined. It is also 22% Asian, 12% multiracial, and 9% Black. Ingham County's residents are about 69% White, 13 points above the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Hiawatha Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 62%.
Teachers at Hiawatha Elementary School total 28 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.8:1. Across elementary schools in Michigan, the average ratio is about 15.8:1. The school counts 102 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 23%. Compared with the 49% average for public schools in Ingham County, the school's rate is lower.
allk12 grades Hiawatha Elementary School a B. The grade compares the school only with Michigan public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 56.0% for a school in Michigan with Hiawatha Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Hiawatha Elementary School posts 54.3%.
Federal survey data for Ingham County show that median household income is about $65,526, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 41% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. A total of 100 public schools operate in Ingham County, serving about 37,914 students.
The closest other public school is Kinawa School, about 1.0 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Hiawatha Elementary School's average proficiency of 54.3% compares with 65.4% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The federal government classifies Hiawatha Elementary School's location as Suburb: Large.
Hiawatha Elementary School had 457 students in 2020-21 and 441 in 2024-25, a 4% decrease. The ratio of students to teachers went from 14.7:1 to 15.8:1 over the same years.
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Ingham County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
283,913
Census ACS
Median income
$65,526
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
100
37,914 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Okemos Public Schools
- Okemos High SchoolHigh · 1,496 students
- Kinawa SchoolMiddle · 735 students
- Chippewa Middle SchoolMiddle · 726 students
- Bennett Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
- Cornell Elementary SchoolElementary · 439 students
- Okemos Public MontessoriCentralElementary · 326 students
Other schools in OKEMOS
- Michigan Connections AcademyCombined · 1,589 students
- Okemos High SchoolHigh · 1,496 students
- Kinawa SchoolMiddle · 735 students
- Chippewa Middle SchoolMiddle · 726 students
- Bennett Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
- Cornell Elementary SchoolElementary · 439 students
Other Hiawatha Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Hiawatha Elementary. Hiawatha Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 8.
- Hiawatha Elementary SchoolOthello, WA · 579 students
- Hiawatha Elementary SchoolBerwyn, IL · 394 students
- Hiawatha ElemHiawatha, KS · 337 students
- Hiawatha Elementary SchoolHiawatha, IA · 334 students
- Hiawatha Elementary SchoolToledo, OH · 309 students
Nearby schools
- Kinawa School1.0 mi · 735
- Chippewa Middle School1.0 mi · 726
- Michigan Connections Academy1.2 mi · 1,589
- Bennett Woods Elementary School1.7 mi · 476
- Okemos High School1.8 mi · 1,496
- Okemos Public MontessoriCentral1.9 mi · 326
Frequently asked questions
About Hiawatha Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hiawatha Elementary School?
Hiawatha Elementary School enrolls approximately 441 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Hiawatha Elementary School serve?
Hiawatha Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Hiawatha Elementary School?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Hiawatha Elementary School.
How diverse is Hiawatha Elementary School?
Hiawatha Elementary School reports a student body of 56% White, 1% Hispanic, 9% Black, 22% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Hiawatha Elementary School public or private?
Hiawatha Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Okemos Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.