Morse Elementary School

As a mid-tier K-5 school in TROY, Michigan, Morse Elementary School instructs 411 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Troy School District.

Troy School District runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 11,596 students. Morse Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Morse Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Asian (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 34% White, 14% Black, 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 9% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Morse Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 41.9%.

In the broader community, census data for Oakland County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Morse Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Troy College and Career High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Morse Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 56.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 497 students in 2018 compared to 411 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 47% to 35% across the same window.

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