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Meadowbrook Elementary School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Meadowbrook Elementary School
Set in NOVI, Michigan, Meadowbrook Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary-level community, part of Walled Lake Consolidated Schools. It instructs 518 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Meadowbrook Elementary School sits 40% bigger than that benchmark.
Within Walled Lake Consolidated Schools, which oversees 19 schools and 11,640 students, Meadowbrook Elementary School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Meadowbrook Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 24% Black, 15% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Meadowbrook Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at Meadowbrook Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Oakland County's rate of about 32%.
After controlling for student poverty, Meadowbrook Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.7%; Meadowbrook Elementary School posts 28.4%, -15.3 points below that line.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Oakland County) records that the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Meadowbrook Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Hickory Woods Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadowbrook Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 55.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 596 students in 2018 compared to 518 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 48% to 40%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.
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