Monroe Road Elementary School

Monroe Road Elementary School, a heavily attended elementary campus in LAMBERTVILLE, Michigan, operated by Bedford Public Schools, instructs 595 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 61% larger than the state mean of about 369.

Across the 5 schools in Bedford Public Schools (3,911 students total), Monroe Road Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Monroe Road Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Monroe County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Monroe Road Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 54.8%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Monroe County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $77,335 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Monroe County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,286 students), Monroe Road Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Douglas Road Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Monroe Road Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Monroe Road Elementary School has ticked down 13%, going from 683 students in 2018 to 595 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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