Spencer Road Elementary School

Spencer Road Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in BRIGHTON, Michigan, operated by Brighton Area Schools. The school educates 507 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Spencer Road Elementary School sits 37% larger than that benchmark.

Within Brighton Area Schools, which oversees 8 schools and 5,796 students, Spencer Road Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Spencer Road Elementary School logs that nearly all students (93%) are White; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Spencer Road Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Spencer Road Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 71.2%, a residual of +11.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Livingston County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,039 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Livingston County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,695 students), of which Spencer Road Elementary School is one.

Hilton Road Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Spencer Road Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spencer Road Elementary School has showed little movement, going from 501 students in 2018 to 507 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

On this page, members of the Spencer Road Elementary School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.