Winans Elementary School

As a mid-tier K-5 school in LANSING, Michigan, Winans Elementary School educates 392 students from grades 1 through 4, part of Waverly Community Schools.

Waverly Community Schools runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,822 students. Winans Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Winans Elementary School reports that 31% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 30% White, 21% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Eaton County as a whole is about 7% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Winans Elementary School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Winans Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 63% of students at Winans Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Eaton County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Winans Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.6%; this one comes in at 19.5%, -19.1 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Eaton County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $79,597 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Winans Elementary School is one of 47 public schools in Eaton County (combined enrollment of about 17,025 students).

Nearest neighbor: SAIL Waverly, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Winans Elementary School has shrank 12%, going from 443 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 10% to 21% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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