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Enrollment
527
Elementary
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAYNE-WESTLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 260001503907
Wildwood Elementary School
500 N WILDWOOD ST, WESTLAND, MI 48185 · (734) 419-2790 · Wayne County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL527 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of Michigan public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
288 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 114 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (114) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
24.5%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
17.6%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
22.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 42% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wildwood Elementary School
Wildwood Elementary School's state test result (22.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildwood Elementary School this school | 527 | 54.6% | 22.7% |
| Miami Elementary School CLINTON TWP | 473 | 53.1% | 36.9% |
| Childs Elementary School YPSILANTI | 493 | 53.3% | 32.7% |
| Ottawa Elementary School CLINTON TWP | 519 | 49.9% | 26.7% |
| Springview Elementary School FLUSHING | 468 | 57.3% | 38.4% |
| Fox Elementary School MACOMB | 471 | 51.4% | 26.6% |
Matched among Michigan elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wildwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Wayne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.7% | #1,045 of 1,085 | #146 of 165 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.6% | #1,056 of 1,072 | #157 of 165 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.5% | #1,067 of 1,139 | #147 of 176 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 527 | #214 of 1,630 | #64 of 301 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #1,078 of 1,424 | #199 of 281 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #366 of 1,424 | #61 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.6% | #805 of 1,563 | #218 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.6% | #149 of 440 | #31 of 91 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
527
+59 (+13%) vs 2020
+38% since 1990-91, when it was 382
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 16.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 527 | 30 | 17.6:1 | 55% (288) |
| 2023-24 | 524 | 34 | 15.4:1 | 60% (315) |
| 2022-23 | 531 | 27.5 | 19.3:1 | 55% (294) |
| 2020-21 | 468 | 28 | 16.7:1 | 59% (277) |
| 2017-18 | 468 | 23.1 | 20.3:1 | 50% (232) |
| 2015-16 | 485 | 24 | 20.2:1 | 56% (273) |
| 2010-11 | 580 | 27 | 21.5:1 | 52% (300) |
| 2000-01 | 452 | 20 | 22.6:1 | 23% (106) |
| 1990-91 | 382 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wildwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (468 to 527); teachers up 30% (23.1 to 30).
About Wildwood Elementary School
Wildwood Elementary School is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in WESTLAND, Michigan. It educates 527 students in pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Michigan is about 369 students.
Wildwood Elementary School is in Wayne-Westland Community School District, a district with 8,980 students across 15 schools.
White students account for 62% of enrollment at Wildwood Elementary School. Smaller groups are 24% Black, 9% Hispanic, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. In Wayne County overall, about 49% of residents are White. Wildwood Elementary School has a diversity index of 56%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at Wildwood Elementary School is 30 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 17.6:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Michigan is 15.8:1, lower than at this school. Around 55% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Wayne County, the average is 66%.
Measured against Michigan public elementary schools, Wildwood Elementary School receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Wildwood Elementary School trails its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 19.3 points (22.7% versus 42.1%), a bottom-10% result in Michigan on BeatsExpectations.
Wayne County has these Census figures: median household income is about $60,539, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and roughly 16% of residents are in poverty. Wildwood Elementary School is among the 573 public schools in Wayne County.
Farmington 56 Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Wildwood Elementary School at 4th of 5.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 527 was 13% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 468.
The Wildwood Elementary School community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Wayne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,772,259
Census ACS
Median income
$60,539
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
573
259,786 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wayne-Westland Community School District
- John Glenn High SchoolHigh · 1,368 students
- Wayne Memorial High SchoolHigh · 1,257 students
- Adlai Stevenson Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolHigh · 619 students
- Adams Middle SchoolMiddle · 591 students
- Alexander Hamilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 469 students
Other schools in WESTLAND
- John Glenn High SchoolHigh · 1,368 students
- Adlai Stevenson Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
- Universal Learning AcademyCombined · 761 students
- Cooper Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 638 students
- Adams Middle SchoolMiddle · 591 students
- Johnson Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 503 students
Other Wildwood Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 12 states are named Wildwood Elementary. Wildwood Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 15.
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolTOMBALL, TX · 819 students
- WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWILDWOOD, FL · 678 students
- WILDWOOD ELEMENTARYSTILLWATER, MN · 648 students
- Wildwood ElementaryYucaipa, CA · 607 students
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolFEDERAL WAY, WA · 598 students
Nearby schools
- Farmington 56 Campus0.5 mi · 455
- Garden City Middle School0.7 mi · 423
- Alexander Hamilton Elementary School0.8 mi · 469
- John Glenn High School1.0 mi · 1,368
- Thomas A Edison Elem School1.3 mi · 450
- Adams Middle School1.3 mi · 591
Frequently asked questions
About Wildwood Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Wildwood Elementary School?
Wildwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 527 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Wildwood Elementary School serve?
Wildwood Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Wildwood Elementary School have?
Wildwood Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wildwood Elementary School?
At Wildwood Elementary School, the student body is approximately 62% White, 9% Hispanic, 24% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Wildwood Elementary School public or private?
Wildwood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Wayne-Westland Community School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.