Wildwood Elementary School

Wildwood Elementary School is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in WESTLAND, Michigan, operated by Wayne-Westland Community School District, with 527 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% above the state mean of about 369.

Wayne-Westland Community School District runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,980 students. Wildwood Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Wildwood Elementary School lists that 62% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 24% Black, 9% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at Wildwood Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Wildwood Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.1%; actual is 22.7%, a gap of -19.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Wayne County put median household earnings sit near $60,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Wildwood Elementary School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

Farmington 56 Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wildwood Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wildwood Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 23.6%.

Wildwood Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wildwood Elementary School has increased 13%, going from 468 students in 2018 to 527 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 72% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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