Marjorie Carlson Elementary School

Marjorie Carlson Elementary School is a moderately sized primary school in WARREN, Michigan, one of the schools within Van Dyke Public Schools. The school hosts 360 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Van Dyke Public Schools comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,026 students; Marjorie Carlson Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Marjorie Carlson Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 23% White, 12% multiracial, 9% Asian, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Macomb County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Marjorie Carlson Elementary School reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Macomb County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marjorie Carlson Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.9%; this one delivers 36.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Macomb County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Marjorie Carlson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Keith Bovenschen School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Marjorie Carlson Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.

Marjorie Carlson Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Marjorie Carlson Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 425 (now 360). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 36% to 23%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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