CB Sabbath 68 Preparatory Academy

As a cozy intermediate school in RIVER ROUGE, Michigan, CB Sabbath 68 Preparatory Academy hosts 261 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by River Rouge School District of the City of. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so CB Sabbath 68 Preparatory Academy sits 48% below that benchmark.

CB Sabbath 68 Preparatory Academy is one of 5 schools operated by River Rouge School District of the City of, a district that teaches 3,084 students overall.

On the student-mix side, CB Sabbath 68 Preparatory Academy reports that 80% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), CB Sabbath 68 Preparatory Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is River Rouge High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 363 students in 2018 compared to 261 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share climbed from 76% to 80%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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