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Michael Hamady Elementary School
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About Michael Hamady Elementary School
Located at 3207 FINNEY CT, in FLINT, Michigan, Michael Hamady Elementary School is a micro-enrollment elementary-level community that instructs 131 students (grades K through 1), run under Westwood Heights Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 64% smaller than the state mean of about 369.
Michael Hamady Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Westwood Heights Schools, a district that works with 1,185 students overall.
Demographically, Michael Hamady Elementary School records that 82% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 10% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Genesee County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Michael Hamady Elementary School has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Genesee County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
In the surrounding community, Genesee County reports that median household income runs about $62,281, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Genesee County runs 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students), of which Michael Hamady Elementary School is one.
Greater Heights Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Michael Hamady Elementary School.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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