Wiley Elementary School

Set in SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Michigan, Wiley Elementary School is an expansive elementary-level community, one of the schools within Utica Community Schools. It serves 570 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Wiley Elementary School sits 54% larger than that benchmark.

Within Utica Community Schools, which oversees 37 schools and 25,574 students, Wiley Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Wiley Elementary School records that 74% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 11% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Macomb County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wiley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Macomb County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Wiley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Utica High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wiley Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

Wiley Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wiley Elementary School has decreased 7%, going from 613 students in 2018 to 570 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 85% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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