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William D Miller Elem School
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 D Miller Elem School
William D Miller Elem School is a medium-sized elementary-level community in NEW BOSTON, Michigan, operated by Huron School District. The school caters to 489 students in grades 1 through 5. That puts it 33% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.
Within Huron School District, which oversees 5 schools and 2,489 students, William D Miller Elem School is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, William D Miller Elem School lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. 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 reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), William D Miller Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.2%; this one delivers 40.6%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which William D Miller Elem School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Barth Elementary School, around 1.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around William D Miller Elem School. On composite proficiency, William D Miller Elem School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.
William D Miller Elem School operates from a suburban location.
Five-year trend. William D Miller Elem School's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 503 (now 489). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.
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