Randels Elementary School

Randels Elementary School is an intimate elementary school in FLINT, Michigan, part of Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools. The school instructs 311 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,500 students; Randels Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Randels Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 24% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Genesee County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Randels Elementary School lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 85% of students at Randels Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Genesee County's rate of about 61%.

In the broader community, Genesee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,281 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Genesee County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students), Randels Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Transition Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Randels Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 44% since 2018, when it stood at 552 (now 311). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

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