Jefferson Elementary School

Jefferson Elementary School operates as a mid-tier primary school in WYANDOTTE, Michigan, one of the schools within Wyandotte School District of the City of. Current enrollment sits at 473 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Jefferson Elementary School sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Wyandotte School District of the City of (4,149 students total), Jefferson Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Jefferson Elementary School records that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the resource side, On paper, Jefferson Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jefferson Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.2%; this one delivers 31.0%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wayne County) shows that median household earnings sit near $60,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Jefferson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Woodrow Wilson School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jefferson Elementary School has fell 11%, going from 530 students in 2018 to 473 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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