Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School

Set in DETROIT, Michigan, Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School is a compact middle school, operated by Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences. It works with 339 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.

Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,033 students; Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (99%). The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household income runs about $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%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School.

The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School's enrollment has edged down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 411 (now 339). Class-load math has tightened: from 58.7:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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