Milwood Elementary School

Milwood Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in KALAMAZOO, Michigan, overseen by Kalamazoo Public Schools. The school educates 362 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Kalamazoo Public Schools, which oversees 26 schools and 12,227 students, Milwood Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Milwood Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% Black, 17% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Kalamazoo County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Milwood Elementary School reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kalamazoo County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Milwood Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.1%; actual is 21.9%, a gap of -13.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kalamazoo County) records that median household earnings sit near $72,532, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Kalamazoo County's 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students), Milwood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Greenwood Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Milwood Elementary School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Milwood Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 33.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Milwood Elementary School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 362). Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 11% across the same window.

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