Honey Creek Community School

Honey Creek Community School is an elementary school of compact scale in ANN ARBOR, Michigan, operated by Honey Creek Community School, enrolling 236 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Honey Creek Community School sits 36% smaller than that benchmark.

Operationally, Honey Creek Community School answers to Honey Creek Community School, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Honey Creek Community School lists that 69% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 14% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Honey Creek Community School lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Honey Creek Community School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at Honey Creek Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Washtenaw County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, Honey Creek Community School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.2%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Washtenaw County) logs that median household earnings sit near $89,180, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Washtenaw County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students), of which Honey Creek Community School is one.

High Point School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Honey Creek Community School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Honey Creek Community School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 61.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. Honey Creek Community School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Honey Creek Community School has contracted 5%, going from 249 students in 2018 to 236 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Honey Creek Community School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.