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Wylie E Groves High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Wylie E Groves High School
Wylie E Groves High School operates as a high-enrollment 9-12 campus in BEVERLY HILLS, Michigan, run under Birmingham Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,108 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Wylie E Groves High School sits 141% above that benchmark.
Wylie E Groves High School is one of 13 schools operated by Birmingham Public Schools, a district that caters to 7,217 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Wylie E Groves High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment; the rest reads as 25% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Wylie E Groves High School has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.3:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Oakland County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Oakland County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,760, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Wylie E Groves High School is one campus in the mix.
Beverly Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Wylie E Groves High School's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,229 (now 1,108). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 67% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.
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