Mary Helen Guest Elementary School

Mary Helen Guest Elementary School, a mid-tier elementary-level community in WALLED LAKE, Michigan, overseen by Walled Lake Consolidated Schools, hosts 337 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Walled Lake Consolidated Schools, which oversees 19 schools and 11,640 students, Mary Helen Guest Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Mary Helen Guest Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest looks like 17% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Mary Helen Guest Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mary Helen Guest Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of +5.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Oakland County) logs that median household income runs about $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Mary Helen Guest Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Walled Lake Central High School, around 1.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mary Helen Guest Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 55.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mary Helen Guest Elementary School has declined 8%, going from 367 students in 2018 to 337 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 74% to 56% over that span.

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