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William A Brummer Elementary School
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About William A Brummer Elementary School
Set in SOUTH LYON, Michigan, William A Brummer Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, one of the schools within South Lyon Community Schools. It caters to 469 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% above the state mean of about 369.
South Lyon Community Schools comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 8,231 students; William A Brummer Elementary School is among them.
On demographics, William A Brummer Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest is composed of 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, William A Brummer Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.1%; this one delivers 56.9%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Livingston County) records that median household income runs about $103,039, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. William A Brummer Elementary School is one of 48 public schools in Livingston County (combined enrollment of about 24,695 students).
Nearest neighbor: Frank E Bartlett School, around 2.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts William A Brummer Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 56.5%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. William A Brummer Elementary School's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 559 (now 469). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.
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