Clippert Academy

Clippert Academy is a middle school of intimate scale in DETROIT, Michigan, one of the schools within Detroit Public Schools Community District, teacheing 424 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within Detroit Public Schools Community District, which oversees 103 schools and 48,448 students, Clippert Academy is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Clippert Academy lists that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% Black, 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Clippert Academy higher than the state norm the norm. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clippert Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wayne County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 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 Clippert Academy is one.

Western International High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 461 students in 2018 compared to 424 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 94% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 24.9:1 in 2025.

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