Whitehills Elementary School

Whitehills Elementary School is a primary school of small scale in EAST LANSING, Michigan, operated by East Lansing School District, teacheing 286 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% below the state mean of about 369.

East Lansing School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,702 students; Whitehills Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Whitehills Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 12% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Whitehills Elementary School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Ingham County's rate of about 49%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Whitehills Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.4%, the actual is 61.9%, a residual of +6.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Ingham County shows median household income runs about $65,526, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Ingham County's 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,914 students), Whitehills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Donley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Whitehills Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Whitehills Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 325 students in 2018 compared to 286 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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