Holly Elementary School

Set in HOLLY, Michigan, Holly Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus, run under Holly Area School District. It instructs 307 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Holly Area School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,120 students. Holly Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Holly Elementary School lists that nearly all students (86%) are White. The remainder comes out to 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Holly Elementary School shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Holly Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Holly Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Oakland County put median household earnings sit near $97,760, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Holly Elementary School is one.

Holly Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Holly Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 346 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.