Westwood Elementary School

Westwood Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus in WARREN, Michigan, part of Warren Woods Public Schools. The school teaches 512 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Westwood Elementary School sits 39% above that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in Warren Woods Public Schools (2,991 students total), Westwood Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Westwood Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 24% Black, 15% Asian, 10% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Westwood Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Macomb County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.0%, the actual is 42.1%, a residual of +6.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Macomb County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Macomb County runs 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), of which Westwood Elementary School is one.

Frontier International Academy Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Westwood Elementary School at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 36.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 551 students in 2018 compared to 512 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 60% to 48% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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