Keller Elementary

Located at 1505 N CAMPBELL RD, in ROYAL OAK, Michigan, Keller Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that enrolls 470 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Royal Oak Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 27% larger than the state mean of about 369.

Royal Oak Schools comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,727 students; Keller Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Keller Elementary records that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 9% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Keller Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 19% of students at Keller Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Keller Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Oakland County put median household earnings sit near $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Keller Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lessenger Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Keller Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 47.7%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Keller Elementary has climbed 6%, going from 445 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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