Center Line Preparatory Academy

Center Line Preparatory Academy is a heavily attended K-12 campus in CENTER LINE, Michigan, one of the schools within Center Line Preparatory Academy. The school hosts 1,043 students in grades K through 12. That puts it 271% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 281 students.

Operationally, Center Line Preparatory Academy answers to Center Line Preparatory Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Center Line Preparatory Academy lists that nearly all students (82%) are Black. The remainder breaks down as 12% multiracial, 4% White, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Macomb County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Center Line Preparatory Academy has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Center Line Preparatory Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Center Line Preparatory Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.6%, the actual is 31.1%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the area at large, Macomb County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,837, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Center Line Preparatory Academy is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

The closest other public school is Center Line High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. Center Line Preparatory Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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