Marie C Graham Elem School
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Marie C Graham Elem School
Marie C Graham Elem School is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Michigan, overseen by L'Anse Creuse Public Schools, enrolling 356 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Marie C Graham Elem School is one of 17 schools operated by L'Anse Creuse Public Schools, a district that educates 9,090 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Marie C Graham Elem School reports that 60% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 26% Black, 10% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at Marie C Graham Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Marie C Graham Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.5%; this one delivers 39.2%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Macomb County put the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Marie C Graham Elem School is one campus in the mix.
Middle School Central is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marie C Graham Elem School at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 38.2%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marie C Graham Elem School has held roughly steady, going from 364 students in 2018 to 356 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.
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