Spring Mills Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary campus in HIGHLAND, Michigan, Spring Mills Elementary School caters to 424 students from grades K through 5, operated by Huron Valley Schools.

Huron Valley Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 7,372 students. Spring Mills Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Spring Mills Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest is composed of 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Spring Mills Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.9%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Oakland County indicate median household income runs about $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%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Spring Mills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Apollo Center, around 1.2 miles off. 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), Spring Mills Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Spring Mills Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 497 (now 424). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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