Pardee School

Pardee School operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Michigan, one of the schools within Dearborn Heights School District #7. Current enrollment sits at 337 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Pardee School is one of 6 schools operated by Dearborn Heights School District #7, a district that serves 2,381 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Pardee School reports that 63% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 19% Black, 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Pardee School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Pardee School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Wayne County shows median household earnings sit near $60,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Pardee School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Oakley W Best Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pardee School.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pardee School has contracted 16%, going from 400 students in 2018 to 337 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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