Ann Arbor Trail Magnet School

Located at 7635 CHATHAM, in DETROIT, Michigan, Ann Arbor Trail Magnet School is a micro-enrollment middle school that serves 68 students (grades 3 through 8), part of Detroit Public Schools Community District. Enrollment runs roughly 86% below the state mean of about 502.

Within Detroit Public Schools Community District, which oversees 103 schools and 48,448 students, Ann Arbor Trail Magnet School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Ann Arbor Trail Magnet School shows that 99% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Ann Arbor Trail Magnet School reports 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at Ann Arbor Trail Magnet School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Across the wider county, census data for Wayne County shows median household income runs about $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Ann Arbor Trail Magnet School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dearborn STEM Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 68%: 215 students in 2018 compared to 68 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged up from 94% to 99% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 7.2:1 in 2025.

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