Jackman Road Elementary School

Jackman Road Elementary School is an elementary-level community of sprawling scale in TEMPERANCE, Michigan, overseen by Bedford Public Schools, instructing 580 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 57% larger than the state mean of about 369.

Jackman Road Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Bedford Public Schools, a district that works with 3,911 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jackman Road Elementary School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Monroe County (around 41%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jackman Road Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.5%; this one delivers 60.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Monroe County) shows that median household income runs about $77,335, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Jackman Road Elementary School is one of 52 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 20,286 students).

The closest other public school is Bedford Senior High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jackman Road Elementary School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 49.1%.

Jackman Road Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 665 students in 2018 compared to 580 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.