Enrollment
292
Elementary
DISTRICT 292 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AIRPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 260198003942
Loren Eyler Elementary School
1335 CARLETON ROCKWOOD RD, CARLETON, MI 48117 · (734) 654-2121 · Monroe County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL292 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 72% of Michigan public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
151 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 55%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 75 | 26% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 29% larger than its 4th grade class (58).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Airport Community Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
46.9%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
55.9%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
51.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Loren Eyler Elementary School
Loren Eyler Elementary School's state test result (51.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loren Eyler Elementary School this school | 292 | 51.7% | 51.4% |
| Shettler School MUSKEGON | 293 | 50.9% | 51.7% |
| Robert D Brandon Elem School MARTIN | 299 | 50.2% | 42.9% |
| AA Rather School IONIA | 308 | 51.0% | 41.4% |
| North Elementary School ITHACA | 295 | 50.8% | 33.1% |
| Beach Elementary School MUSKEGON | 295 | 48.8% | 42.6% |
Matched among Michigan elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Loren Eyler Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #387 of 1,085 | #6 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.9% | #304 of 1,072 | #5 of 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.9% | #582 of 1,139 | #11 of 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 292 | #1,118 of 1,630 | #17 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #1,188 of 1,424 | #16 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.9% | #735 of 1,424 | #5 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.7% | #857 of 1,563 | #10 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.4% | #729 of 979 | #9 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
292
+40 (+16%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 382
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 18.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 292 | 16 | 18.3:1 | 52% (151) |
| 2023-24 | 279 | 15.7 | 17.8:1 | 52% (145) |
| 2022-23 | 296 | 16.1 | 18.4:1 | 52% (155) |
| 2020-21 | 252 | 14 | 18.0:1 | 46% (117) |
| 2017-18 | 312 | 17.5 | 17.9:1 | 51% (160) |
| 2015-16 | 293 | 16 | 18.3:1 | 54% (159) |
| 2010-11 | 345 | 17 | 20.3:1 | 54% (185) |
| 2000-01 | 363 | 16 | 22.7:1 | 20% (72) |
| 1990-91 | 382 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Loren Eyler Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (312 to 292); teachers down 9% (17.5 to 16).
About Loren Eyler Elementary School
CARLETON, Michigan, is home to Loren Eyler Elementary School, a small elementary school. It offers pre-K through 4 and has 292 students enrolled. That is 21% below the average of about 369 students for elementary schools in Michigan.
District-wide, Airport Community Schools has 9 schools and 2,849 students.
White students are 80% of those enrolled at Loren Eyler Elementary School. The remaining shares are 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Monroe County's population at about 90%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 34%.
Its ratio of 18.3:1 is based on 16 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Michigan average 15.8:1, 2.4 fewer students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 52%. That is higher than the 41% average for public schools in Monroe County.
Loren Eyler Elementary School holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 72% of Michigan public elementary schools.
Loren Eyler Elementary School is 8.0 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (51.4% versus 43.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Michigan.
For Monroe County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $77,335, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 52 public schools in the county, enrolling about 20,286, Loren Eyler Elementary School among them.
Of the public schools around it, Loren Eyler Elementary School is closest to Joseph C Sterling Elementary School, about 2.1 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Loren Eyler Elementary School ranks 2nd of 6 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 51.4% against a local average of 42.6%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 292, up from 252 in 2020-21.
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Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
155,505
Census ACS
Median income
$77,335
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
20,286 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Airport Community Schools
- Airport Senior High SchoolHigh · 760 students
- Wagar Junior High SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Joseph C Sterling Elementary SchoolElementary · 370 students
- Fred W Ritter Elementary SchoolElementary · 265 students
- Henry Niedermeier Elementary SchoolElementary · 242 students
- Wagar Middle SchoolMiddle · 221 students
Other schools in CARLETON
- Airport Senior High SchoolHigh · 760 students
- Wagar Junior High SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Joseph C Sterling Elementary SchoolElementary · 370 students
- Wagar Middle SchoolMiddle · 221 students
- Airport Center for EducationCombined · 49 students
- Airport Middle CollegeHigh · 9 students
Nearby schools
- Joseph C Sterling Elementary School2.1 mi · 370
- Airport Senior High School2.1 mi · 760
- Airport Middle College2.1 mi · 9
- Airport Center for Education2.1 mi · 49
- Wagar Middle School2.3 mi · 221
- Wagar Junior High School2.3 mi · 641
Frequently asked questions
About Loren Eyler Elementary SchoolHow large is Loren Eyler Elementary School?
Loren Eyler Elementary School enrolls approximately 292 students in grades PK-04.
Is Loren Eyler Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Loren Eyler Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does Loren Eyler Elementary School have?
Loren Eyler Elementary School employs 16 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Loren Eyler Elementary School?
Student demographics at Loren Eyler Elementary School are roughly 80% White, 9% Hispanic, 3% Black, 7% Two or more.
Is Loren Eyler Elementary School public or private?
Loren Eyler Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Airport Community Schools.
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