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Snow Elementary School
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Snow Elementary School
Snow Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in DEARBORN, Michigan, one of the schools within Dearborn City School District, educates 465 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 26% larger than typical.
Snow Elementary School is one of 37 schools operated by Dearborn City School District, a district that works with 19,197 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Snow Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 7% Black, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Snow Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Snow Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.3%; this one delivers 46.2%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Wayne County) logs that median household earnings sit near $60,539, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Snow Elementary School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).
Dearborn Public Schools Virtual K12 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Snow Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Snow Elementary School at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 28.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Snow Elementary School's enrollment has increased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 382 (now 465).
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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