Wylie Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary campus in DEXTER, Michigan, Wylie Elementary School works with 486 students from grades 3 through 4, run under Dexter Community School District. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Wylie Elementary School sits 32% larger than that benchmark.

Dexter Community School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,290 students. Wylie Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wylie Elementary School logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Wylie Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 9% of students at Wylie Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Washtenaw County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Wylie Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.4%, the actual is 64.7%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Washtenaw County put the typical household earns roughly $89,180 per year, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wylie Elementary School is one of 104 public schools in Washtenaw County (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students).

Dexter Early Elementary Complex is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wylie Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wylie Elementary School has declined 3%, going from 501 students in 2018 to 486 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 93% to 89%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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