Simonds Elementary School

As a compact primary school in MADISON HEIGHTS, Michigan, Simonds Elementary School caters to 260 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Lamphere Public Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Simonds Elementary School sits 30% smaller than that benchmark.

Lamphere Public Schools comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,416 students; Simonds Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Simonds Elementary School logs that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 13% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. Compared to Oakland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 61% of students at Simonds Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

After controlling for student poverty, Simonds Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of -4.8 points.

In the broader community, Oakland County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Simonds Elementary School is one.

Lamphere Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Simonds Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Simonds Elementary School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Simonds Elementary School has contracted 9%, going from 287 students in 2018 to 260 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 67% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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