Advantage Alternative Program

As a small school serving multiple grade levels, Advantage Alternative Program serves students in HAZEL PARK, Michigan. The school teaches kindergarten through 12 and enrolls 150 students. That puts enrollment 47% below the 281-student average for combined schools in Michigan.

Hazel Park School District of the City of counts 11 schools and 2,899 students, including Advantage Alternative Program.

The share of Black students at Advantage Alternative Program is 73%, a majority. The school is also 19% White and 7% Hispanic. That is higher than the 13% Black share among all Oakland County residents. A diversity index of 43% means there is a 43% chance two randomly chosen students at Advantage Alternative Program are from different groups.

Based on 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, Advantage Alternative Program has a ratio of 25.0:1. Across combined schools in Michigan, the average ratio is 17.3:1. Income data for the school show 84% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 32% average for public schools in Oakland County is 52 points lower.

For Oakland County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $97,760 a year, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Advantage Alternative Program, Oakland County has 345 public schools.

Viking Virtual Academy sits less than a tenth of a mile from Advantage Alternative Program. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

For locale, NCES codes Advantage Alternative Program as Suburb: Large.

Enrollment was 150 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 124.

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