Public school / Primary
Buchanan Elementary School
Livonia, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 262184005905
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Buchanan Elementary School is a public primary school in Livonia, Michigan, run by Livonia Public Schools School District. It enrols 467 students — the 41527th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
467
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
18.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
30.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Livonia Public Schools School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Stevenson High School1,636 students
- 2Franklin High School1,327 students
- 3Churchill High School1,241 students
- 4Cooper Upper Elementary School662 students
- 5Holmes Middle School656 students
- 6Riley Upper Elementary School644 students
- 7Emerson Middle School641 students
- 8Frost Middle School626 students
- Enrollment+21.3%
- Teachers+18.2%
- Students per teacher+5.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−48.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory