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Warren, Michigan - 7 schools
An equity score of 60/100 ranks Warren Woods Public Schools #190 of 707 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,584 per pupil, Warren Woods Public Schools ranks #160 of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,118
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$14,584
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Warren Woods Public Schools operates 7 public schools serving 3,118 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 high, 3 elementary, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Macomb County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,584 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 821 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 30.7% local, 58.7% state, and 10.7% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 60/100, ranked #190 of 707 in Michigan against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 7 schools offering Advanced Placement (12 AP courses district-wide), a 192.1:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 57.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 49.4% White, 28.5% African American, 11.4% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Briarwood Elementary School, with a diversity index of 71.3/100.
Its largest campus is Warren Woods Tower High School, enrolling 963 students (32% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Warren Woods Adult Education, at 2 students, a 482x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Warren Woods Tower High School accounts for 30.9% of all Warren Woods Public Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Warren Woods Public Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Warren Woods Public Schools school enrollment varies 482× across entities
Warren Woods Public Schools school enrollment ranges from 2 students (lowest) to 963 students (highest), a spread of 961 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Warren Woods Public Schools has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 64.4% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Warren Woods Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 192:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Warren Woods Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 57.7% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.