CA Alternative EdAtlantis

CA Alternative EdAtlantis sits in Flint, Michigan, and is classified as a high school. Its enrollment is 110 students, spread over grades 6 through 12. High schools in Michigan average about 460 students, which makes this school 76% below average.

CA Alternative EdAtlantis is among 9 schools run by Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools, which serves 3,500 students.

More than half of the students at CA Alternative EdAtlantis are Black (58%). Next come 24% White, 11% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. That compares with about 19% Black among all Genesee County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 59%.

Teacher count: 3.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 34.4:1. The gap from the 21.6:1 average for high schools in Michigan is 12.8 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 91%. The gap from the 61% average for public schools in Genesee County is 30 points.

The school is in Genesee County, where the median household earns about $62,281 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Across Genesee County, 158 public schools serve about 58,534 students.

CA Alternative EdAtlantis is about 1.4 miles from Dye Elementary School, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Federal enrollment counts rose from 94 (2020-21) to 110 (2024-25). There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (34.4:1) than in 2020-21 (23.5:1).

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