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Johnson Elementary School
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Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Johnson Elementary School
Johnson Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in MILFORD, Michigan, overseen by Huron Valley Schools, with 419 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.
Huron Valley Schools comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 7,372 students; Johnson Elementary School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Johnson Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 75%. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Johnson Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Johnson Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Johnson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -6.9 points.
In the area at large, census data for Oakland County shows median household income runs about $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Johnson Elementary School is one of 345 public schools in Oakland County (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students).
Muir Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Johnson Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Johnson Elementary School has increased 9%, going from 386 students in 2018 to 419 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.
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