North Sashabaw Elementary School

North Sashabaw Elementary School, an intimate elementary school in CLARKSTON, Michigan, part of Clarkston Community School District, serves 313 students, covering grades K through 5.

Clarkston Community School District comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 6,670 students; North Sashabaw Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, North Sashabaw Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, North Sashabaw Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Sashabaw Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.5%; this one delivers 39.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Oakland County) shows that median household income runs about $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), North Sashabaw Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sashabaw Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Sashabaw Elementary School. On composite proficiency, North Sashabaw Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Sashabaw Elementary School has contracted 21%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 60% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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