Sheiko Elementary School

As a moderately sized primary school in WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan, Sheiko Elementary School hosts 534 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of West Bloomfield School District. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Sheiko Elementary School sits 45% bigger than that benchmark.

West Bloomfield School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,949 students; Sheiko Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Sheiko Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Black (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 38% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Sheiko Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 53.0%; this one comes in at 39.8%, -13.2 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Oakland County) logs that 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%. Sheiko Elementary School is one of 345 public schools in Oakland County (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Bloomfield Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sheiko Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Sheiko Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 56% since 2018, when it stood at 343 (now 534). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 47% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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