Lakewood Elementary School

Lakewood Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in LAKE ODESSA, Michigan, run under Lakewood Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 461 students spanning grades 1 through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 25% above the state mean of about 369.

Lakewood Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Lakewood Public Schools, a district that works with 1,582 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Lakewood Elementary School reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Ionia County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Lakewood Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Ionia County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, Lakewood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of -7.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Ionia County) logs that median household income runs about $75,611, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Ionia County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,506 students), Lakewood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lakewood Middle School, around 1.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lakewood Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 488 students in 2018 compared to 461 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.