Miami Elementary School

Miami Elementary School is an average-sized elementary school in CLINTON TWP, Michigan, part of Chippewa Valley Schools. The school serves 473 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 28% above the state mean of about 369.

Chippewa Valley Schools comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 14,504 students; Miami Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Miami Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest consists of 26% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Macomb County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Miami Elementary School lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Miami Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Miami Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.8%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Macomb County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Miami Elementary School is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

Nearest neighbor: Huron Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Miami Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 517 students in 2018 compared to 473 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 72% to 60%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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