Ottawa Elementary School

Set in CLINTON TWP, Michigan, Ottawa Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus, operated by Chippewa Valley Schools. It serves 519 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 41% above typical.

Across the 20 schools in Chippewa Valley Schools (14,504 students total), Ottawa Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Ottawa Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 22% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Ottawa Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 50% of students at Ottawa Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ottawa Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.2%; Ottawa Elementary School posts 26.7%, -17.5 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Macomb County indicate median household income runs about $77,837, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ottawa Elementary School is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

The closest other public school is Algonquin Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ottawa Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 30%: 399 students in 2018 compared to 519 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 71% to 59%. Class-load math has fell: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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