CapstoneWayne Co Juvenile Detention Fac

Located at 3501 HAMTRAMCK DR, in HAMTRAMCK, Michigan, CapstoneWayne Co Juvenile Detention Fac is a low-enrollment combined-grade school that educates 124 students (grades 4 through 12), operated by Capstone Academy Charter School (SDA). Compared to the state average of about 281 students per school, that is 56% below typical.

Capstone Academy Charter School (SDA) comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 136 students; CapstoneWayne Co Juvenile Detention Fac is among them.

In terms of who attends, CapstoneWayne Co Juvenile Detention Fac logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Other groups include 8% White, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting CapstoneWayne Co Juvenile Detention Fac tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 98% of students at CapstoneWayne Co Juvenile Detention Fac qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Wayne County put 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%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which CapstoneWayne Co Juvenile Detention Fac is one.

Oakland International Academy 28 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.

CapstoneWayne Co Juvenile Detention Fac operates from a residential location. CapstoneWayne Co Juvenile Detention Fac operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. CapstoneWayne Co Juvenile Detention Fac's enrollment has increased 80% since 2018, when it stood at 69 (now 124). The Black share of enrollment declined from 94% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 69.0:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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