Ralph Waldo Emerson Elem School

As a mid-tier primary school in FRASER, Michigan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Elem School works with 345 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Fraser Public Schools.

Fraser Public Schools comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,366 students; Ralph Waldo Emerson Elem School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ralph Waldo Emerson Elem School logs that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Ralph Waldo Emerson Elem School logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ralph Waldo Emerson Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.6%, the actual is 41.4%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Macomb County put the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Ralph Waldo Emerson Elem School is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

Arts Academy in the Woods is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ralph Waldo Emerson Elem School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 378 students in 2018 compared to 345 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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