Riley Upper Elementary School

Located at 15555 HENRY RUFF ST, in LIVONIA, Michigan, Riley Upper Elementary School is an average-sized junior high that hosts 615 students (grades 5 through 6), one of the schools within Livonia Public Schools School District. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Riley Upper Elementary School sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 25 schools in Livonia Public Schools School District (12,986 students total), Riley Upper Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Riley Upper Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Riley Upper Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riley Upper Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.6%, the actual is 47.0%, a residual of -11.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Wayne County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Riley Upper Elementary School is one.

Roosevelt Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riley Upper Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Riley Upper Elementary School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 63.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 704 students in 2018 compared to 615 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 80% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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