May V Peck Elementary School

May V Peck Elementary School, a moderately sized elementary campus in CENTER LINE, Michigan, part of Center Line Public Schools, instructs 493 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% bigger than the state mean of about 369.

Across the 6 schools in Center Line Public Schools (2,484 students total), May V Peck Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, May V Peck Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Black (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 29% White, 17% Asian, 13% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, May V Peck Elementary School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Macomb County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, May V Peck Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.2%; this one comes in at 20.4%, -15.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Macomb County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Macomb County runs 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), of which May V Peck Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Center Line High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, May V Peck Elementary School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 29.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 52%: 325 students in 2018 compared to 493 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 58% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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