Martell Elementary School

Located at 5666 LIVERNOIS RD, in TROY, Michigan, Martell Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus that educates 348 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Troy School District.

Troy School District runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 11,596 students. Martell Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Martell Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% Asian, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 5% Black. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Martell Elementary School logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 11% of students at Martell Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, Martell Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.2%; this one delivers 62.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Oakland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Martell Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Smith Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Martell Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 28%: 486 students in 2018 compared to 348 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 43% to 36% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.