WhitmoreBolles Elementary School

WhitmoreBolles Elementary School is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in DEARBORN, Michigan, overseen by Dearborn City School District, with 316 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within Dearborn City School District, which oversees 37 schools and 19,197 students, WhitmoreBolles Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, WhitmoreBolles Elementary School shows that nearly all students (86%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Black, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WhitmoreBolles Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.2%; WhitmoreBolles Elementary School posts 51.0%, +17.8 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Wayne County shows median household earnings sit near $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. WhitmoreBolles Elementary School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

Nearest neighbor: Edsel Ford High School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WhitmoreBolles Elementary School. On composite proficiency, WhitmoreBolles Elementary School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

WhitmoreBolles Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 3%: 308 students in 2018 compared to 316 in 2025. The White share of enrollment increased from 74% to 86% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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