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Keith Elementary School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Keith Elementary School
Keith Elementary School, a mid-tier K-5 school in WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan, one of the schools within Walled Lake Consolidated Schools, teaches 542 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Keith Elementary School sits 47% above that benchmark.
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 11,640 students. Keith Elementary School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Keith Elementary School logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Keith Elementary School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Keith Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Keith Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.5%; this one delivers 50.1%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Oakland County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Keith Elementary School is one of 345 public schools in Oakland County (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students).
Clifford H Smart Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Keith Elementary School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 55.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 630 students in 2018 compared to 542 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.
On this page, members of the Keith Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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