Wood Creek Elementary School

Wood Creek Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan, operated by Farmington Public School District, with 434 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Wood Creek Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Farmington Public School District, a district that enrolls 8,983 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Wood Creek Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Wood Creek Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wood Creek Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.0%; Wood Creek Elementary School posts 34.4%, -16.6 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Oakland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Wood Creek Elementary School is one of 345 public schools in Oakland County (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students).

The closest other public school is Farmington Central High School, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wood Creek Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 18%: 368 students in 2018 compared to 434 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 45% to 35%.

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