Williamston Explorer Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in WILLIAMSTON, Michigan, Williamston Explorer Elementary School serves 387 students from grades 3 through 5, one of the schools within Williamston Community Schools.

Within Williamston Community Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 1,864 students, Williamston Explorer Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Williamston Explorer Elementary School logs that nearly all students (83%) are White; the rest comes out to 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Ingham County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Williamston Explorer Elementary School records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Williamston Explorer Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Ingham County's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Williamston Explorer Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 53.1%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Ingham County put median household earnings sit near $65,526, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ingham County's 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,914 students), Williamston Explorer Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Williamston Discovery Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 12%: 346 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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