Advanced Technology Academy

Set in DEARBORN, Michigan, Advanced Technology Academy is a big K-12 campus, part of Advanced Technology Academy. It serves 1,207 students across grades pre-K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 281 students per school, that is 330% bigger than typical.

Advanced Technology Academy is the operating authority for Advanced Technology Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Advanced Technology Academy logs that Black students make up the majority at 72%; the rest comes out to 26% Hispanic. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Advanced Technology Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Around the school, census data for Wayne County shows median household earnings sit near $60,539, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Advanced Technology Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Miller Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Advanced Technology Academy.

Advanced Technology Academy operates from a downtown location. Advanced Technology Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Advanced Technology Academy's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 1,202 (now 1,207). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 21% to 26%. Class-load math has widened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 26.4:1 in 2025.

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