Paint Creek Elementary School

Set in LAKE ORION, Michigan, Paint Creek Elementary School is a moderately sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Lake Orion Community Schools. It hosts 504 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Paint Creek Elementary School sits 37% bigger than that benchmark.

Lake Orion Community Schools runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,472 students. Paint Creek Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Paint Creek Elementary School lists that nearly all students (84%) are White; the rest looks like 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Paint Creek Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, Paint Creek Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 59.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Oakland County shows median household income runs about $97,760, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Paint Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Clear Lake Elementary School, roughly 1.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Paint Creek Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 53.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 504 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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