Barack Obama Leadership Academy

Barack Obama Leadership Academy, a moderately sized K-5 school in DETROIT, Michigan, one of the schools within Barack Obama Leadership Academy, instructs 329 students, covering grades K through 8.

Barack Obama Leadership Academy is a school of Barack Obama Leadership Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Barack Obama Leadership Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (98%). By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 41.1:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate 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), Barack Obama Leadership Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Southeastern High School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Barack Obama Leadership Academy.

Barack Obama Leadership Academy operates from an urban location. Barack Obama Leadership Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Barack Obama Leadership Academy's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 364 (now 329). Class-load math has loosened: from 28.0:1 in 2018 to 41.1:1 in 2025.

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