Hickory Woods Elementary School

Hickory Woods Elementary School operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in NOVI, Michigan, one of the schools within Walled Lake Consolidated Schools. Current enrollment sits at 499 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% above the state mean of about 369.

Walled Lake Consolidated Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 11,640 students. Hickory Woods Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hickory Woods Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 26% Asian, 19% Black, 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hickory Woods Elementary School reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hickory Woods Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 57.8%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Across the wider county, Oakland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Hickory Woods Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Meadowbrook Elementary School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hickory Woods Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hickory Woods Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 49.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 579 students in 2018 compared to 499 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 49% to 42% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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