West Utica Elementary School

West Utica Elementary School is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Michigan, operated by Utica Community Schools, teacheing 522 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so West Utica Elementary School sits 41% above that benchmark.

Within Utica Community Schools, which oversees 37 schools and 25,574 students, West Utica Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, West Utica Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 56%. Beyond that, the school reports 24% Black, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Macomb County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting West Utica Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 80% of students at West Utica Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, West Utica Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 23.3%, a residual of -7.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Macomb County) logs that median household income runs about $77,837, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), West Utica Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Eppler Junior High School, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West Utica Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. West Utica Elementary School's enrollment has increased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 505 (now 522). The White share of enrollment declined from 71% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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