Clawson Elementary School

Set in CLAWSON, Michigan, Clawson Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus, overseen by Clawson Public Schools. It hosts 543 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% bigger than the state mean of about 369.

Clawson Public Schools runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,349 students. Clawson Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Clawson Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). The remainder breaks down as 10% Black, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Clawson Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 31% of students at Clawson Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clawson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Oakland County shows median household earnings sit near $97,760, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Clawson Elementary School is one.

Clawson Middle School 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. On composite proficiency, Clawson Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Clawson Elementary School's enrollment has grew 28% since 2018, when it stood at 423 (now 543). White enrollment moved from 74% to 80% across the same window.

On the community side, members of the Clawson Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.