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Lean Elementary School
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M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lean Elementary School
Lean Elementary School is one of the well-populated elementary campuss in WARREN, Michigan, operated by Warren Consolidated Schools, with 619 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 68% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.
Across the 21 schools in Warren Consolidated Schools (12,338 students total), Lean Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Lean Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 43% Asian, 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Macomb County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Lean Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lean Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of +11.8 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Macomb County indicate median household income runs about $77,837, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lean Elementary School is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).
Michigan Collegiate MiddleHigh School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lean Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lean Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.5%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 9%: 567 students in 2018 compared to 619 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 33% to 43%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.
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