Howard Elementary School

Howard Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary campus in DEARBORN, Michigan, run under Dearborn City School District. The school educates 436 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Dearborn City School District runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 19,197 students. Howard Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Howard Elementary School records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Howard Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at Howard Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Howard Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 42.1%; Howard Elementary School posts 58.9%, +16.8 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Howard Elementary School is one.

Charles A Lindbergh Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Howard Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Howard Elementary School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 53.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 446 students in 2018 compared to 436 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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