Arts Academy in the Woods

Arts Academy in the Woods operates as a low-enrollment 9-12 campus in FRASER, Michigan, run under Arts Academy in the Woods. Current enrollment sits at 327 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Arts Academy in the Woods sits 29% leaner than that benchmark.

Operationally, Arts Academy in the Woods answers to Arts Academy in the Woods, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Arts Academy in the Woods reports that White students make up the majority at 55%. The remainder comes out to 29% Black, 10% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Macomb County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Arts Academy in the Woods reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Macomb County shows median household earnings sit near $77,837, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Arts Academy in the Woods is one campus in the mix.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a residential site. Arts Academy in the Woods operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Arts Academy in the Woods's enrollment has fell 4% since 2018, when it stood at 342 (now 327). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 35% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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