Yake Elementary School

Set in WOODHAVEN, Michigan, Yake Elementary School is an average-sized elementary campus, operated by Woodhaven-Brownstown School District. It instructs 373 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Across the 9 schools in Woodhaven-Brownstown School District (5,296 students total), Yake Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Yake Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school shows 11% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Yake Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 51.2%; Yake Elementary School posts 68.6%, +17.4 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Yake Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jesse L Anderson Elementary School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Yake Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Yake Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yake Elementary School has ticked down 9%, going from 411 students in 2018 to 373 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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