Hyatt Elementary

As a reasonably sized primary school in LINDEN, Michigan, Hyatt Elementary works with 351 students from grades pre-K through 3, one of the schools within Linden Community Schools.

Across the 5 schools in Linden Community Schools (2,335 students total), Hyatt Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Hyatt Elementary lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 72% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Hyatt Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Genesee County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hyatt Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.8%, the actual is 63.2%, a residual of +11.4 points.

Across the wider county, Genesee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,281 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Genesee County runs 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students), of which Hyatt Elementary is one.

Linden Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hyatt Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hyatt Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hyatt Elementary's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 411 (now 351). Class-load math has tightened: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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