Johnson Upper Elementary School

Located at 8400 N HIX RD, in WESTLAND, Michigan, Johnson Upper Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack junior high that caters to 503 students (grades 4 through 6), one of the schools within Livonia Public Schools School District.

Across the 25 schools in Livonia Public Schools School District (12,986 students total), Johnson Upper Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Johnson Upper Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 20% Black, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Johnson Upper Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 28% of students at Johnson Upper 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 south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Johnson Upper Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 53.9%; this one comes in at 41.1%, -12.7 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports 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%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Johnson Upper Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Churchill High School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Johnson Upper Elementary School at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 44.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Johnson Upper Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 506 students in 2018 to 503 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 61% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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