Leonard Elementary School

Set in LEONARD, Michigan, Leonard Elementary School is a small K-5 school, run under Oxford Community Schools. It serves 241 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Leonard Elementary School sits 35% below that benchmark.

Oxford Community Schools runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,576 students. Leonard Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Leonard Elementary School shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Leonard Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 30% of students at Leonard Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Leonard Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.0%; Leonard Elementary School posts 34.4%, -18.7 points below that line.

Around the school, Oakland County reports that median household income runs about $97,760, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Leonard Elementary School is one of 345 public schools in Oakland County (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students).

Kingsbury Country Day School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Leonard Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Leonard Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 283 students in 2018 compared to 241 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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