Silver Springs Elementary School

As a moderately sized K-5 school in NORTHVILLE, Michigan, Silver Springs Elementary School instructs 403 students from grades K through 5, operated by Northville Public Schools.

Northville Public Schools runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 7,006 students. Silver Springs Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Silver Springs Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 23% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Silver Springs Elementary School lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 9% of students at Silver Springs Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Silver Springs Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 67.2%, a residual of +4.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Silver Springs Elementary School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

Amerman Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Silver Springs Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 75.7%.

Silver Springs Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 416 students in 2018 compared to 403 in 2025.

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