Hoben Elementary School

Hoben Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in CANTON, Michigan, one of the schools within Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, with 443 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Hoben Elementary School sits 20% bigger than that benchmark.

Plymouth-Canton Community Schools runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 15,978 students. Hoben Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Hoben Elementary School records that 68% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 11% Asian, 9% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hoben Elementary School shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 25% of students at Hoben Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Hoben Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.7%.

Zooming out to the county, Wayne County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Hoben Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Discovery Middle School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hoben Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hoben Elementary School has shrank 14%, going from 518 students in 2018 to 443 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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