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Stoney Creek Elementary
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Stoney Creek Elementary
As an average-sized primary school in COMSTOCK PARK, Michigan, Stoney Creek Elementary caters to 432 students from grades K through 2, operated by Comstock Park Public Schools.
Across the 5 schools in Comstock Park Public Schools (1,751 students total), Stoney Creek Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Stoney Creek Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 11% Black. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Kent County's rate of about 47%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Kent County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Stoney Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Comstock Park High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stoney Creek Elementary.
Stoney Creek Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Stoney Creek Elementary's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 443 (now 432). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 58% to 48%. Class-load math has fell: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.
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