Bridge Academy East

Located at 9600 BUFFALO ST, in HAMTRAMCK, Michigan, Bridge Academy East is a high-enrollment K-5 school that hosts 581 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Bridge Academy. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 57% larger than typical.

Bridge Academy East is one of 3 schools operated by Bridge Academy, a district that serves 1,304 students overall.

Demographically, Bridge Academy East reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 12% Asian. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Bridge Academy East has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 100% of students at Bridge Academy East qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bridge Academy East performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.0%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of +10.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Wayne County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Bridge Academy East is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

The closest other public school is Bridge Impact, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bridge Academy East ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. As a public charter, Bridge Academy East runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 19%: 487 students in 2018 compared to 581 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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