Advanced Technology Academy

Advanced Technology Academy sits in DEARBORN, Michigan, and is classified as a combined-grade school. A federal count lists 1,207 students at the school, in pre-K through 12. Average enrollment for combined schools in Michigan is about 281, so this school runs 330% larger than that.

In federal data, the district for Advanced Technology Academy is the school itself.

Black students are the majority at Advanced Technology Academy, with 72% of enrollment. It is also 26% Hispanic. Wayne County's residents are about 37% Black, 35 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 42% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Advanced Technology Academy's 45.8 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 26.4:1. On average, combined schools in Michigan have 17.3:1, compared with 26.4:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 92%. The rate at public schools in Wayne County averages 66%, lower than here.

Within Wayne County, the median household income is $60,539, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 16% of people live in poverty. Besides Advanced Technology Academy, Wayne County has 572 other public schools.

Miller Elementary School is located about 0.1 miles from Advanced Technology Academy. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

NCES assigns Advanced Technology Academy the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.

Over 4 years, Advanced Technology Academy's enrollment declined 4%, to 1,207. The number of students per teacher rose from 17.0 to 26.4 over 4 years.

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