Northwest Elementary School

Northwest Elementary School is a primary school of moderately sized scale in HOWELL, Michigan, one of the schools within Howell Public Schools, works with 418 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Howell Public Schools comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 7,045 students; Northwest Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Northwest Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Northwest Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 58.1%; actual is 38.9%, a gap of -19.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Livingston County put median household income runs about $103,039, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Livingston County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,695 students), Northwest Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Voyager Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Northwest Elementary School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Northwest Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 414 (now 418). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Northwest Elementary School community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.