Owen Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in PONTIAC, Michigan, Owen Elementary School works with 383 students from grades K through 6, operated by Pontiac City School District.

Owen Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Pontiac City School District, a district that educates 3,773 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Owen Elementary School shows that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 41% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

Around the school, census data for Oakland County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Owen Elementary School is one.

Kennedy Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Owen Elementary School has decreased 14%, going from 443 students in 2018 to 383 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 9% to 4% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

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