Mary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle School

Mary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle School operates as a roomy elementary campus in DETROIT, Michigan, part of Detroit Public Schools Community District. Current enrollment sits at 692 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Mary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle School sits 88% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 103 schools in Detroit Public Schools Community District (48,448 students total), Mary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Mary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (98%). That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the resource side, On paper, Mary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle School has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 92% of students at Mary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.4%, the actual is 18.4%, a residual of -7.0 points.

In the broader community, Wayne County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Mary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle School is one campus in the mix.

The School at Marygrove is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Mary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle School's enrollment has expanded 25% since 2018, when it stood at 552 (now 692). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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