Longacre Elementary School

Longacre Elementary School is a primary school of reasonably sized scale in FARMINGTON, Michigan, one of the schools within Farmington Public School District, serveing 443 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% bigger than the state mean of about 369.

Across the 16 schools in Farmington Public School District (8,983 students total), Longacre Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Longacre Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Asian (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 35% White, 12% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 9% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Longacre Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Oakland County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Longacre Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Oakland County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Longacre Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Power Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Longacre Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Longacre Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.1%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 455 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 45% to 35%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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