Canton Preparatory High School

Set in CANTON, Michigan, Canton Preparatory High School is a reasonably sized high school, part of Canton Preparatory High School. It educates 612 students across grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Canton Preparatory High School sits 33% above that benchmark.

Canton Preparatory High School is the operating authority for Canton Preparatory High School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Canton Preparatory High School logs that the most-represented group is Black (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% White, 13% multiracial, 12% Asian, 9% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.7:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at Canton Preparatory High School qualify 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 below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Canton Preparatory High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports that median household income runs about $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Canton Preparatory High School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

Liberty Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Canton Preparatory High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Canton Preparatory High School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 54.2%.

Canton Preparatory High School operates from a residential location. Canton Preparatory High School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 49%: 411 students in 2018 compared to 612 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 44% to 29%.

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