Dearborn Magnet High School

Set in DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Michigan, Dearborn Magnet High School is an one-room-style senior high, run under Dearborn City School District. It serves 113 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Dearborn Magnet High School sits 75% below that benchmark.

Dearborn City School District runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 19,197 students. Dearborn Magnet High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Dearborn Magnet High School shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 8% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Dearborn Magnet High School has 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 51.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Wayne County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Dearborn Magnet High School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

The closest other public school is Howe Trainable Center and Montessori, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dearborn Magnet High School.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 290%: 29 students in 2018 compared to 113 in 2025. The White share of enrollment expanded from 66% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 51.4:1 in 2025.

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