Meyer Elementary School

Meyer Elementary School is a close-knit K-5 school in LEXINGTON, Michigan, run under Croswell-Lexington Community Schools. The school caters to 275 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 25% smaller than the state mean of about 369.

Meyer Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Croswell-Lexington Community Schools, a district that educates 1,708 students overall.

Demographically, Meyer Elementary School shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Meyer Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Meyer Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 44.2%; Meyer Elementary School posts 57.9%, +13.7 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, Sanilac County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,863 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Meyer Elementary School is one of 20 public schools in Sanilac County (combined enrollment of about 5,377 students).

CroswellLexington Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Meyer Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Meyer Elementary School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Meyer Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 324 (now 275). Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 9% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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