McDonald Elementary School

McDonald Elementary School is one of the moderately sized primary schools in DEARBORN, Michigan, part of Dearborn City School District, with 357 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Dearborn City School District comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 19,197 students; McDonald Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, McDonald Elementary School lists that 99% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), McDonald Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Wayne County shows median household earnings sit near $60,539, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), McDonald Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Riverside Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, McDonald Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. McDonald Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 5% since 2018, when it stood at 341 (now 357).

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