Detroit Achievement Academy

Detroit Achievement Academy operates as a mid-sized elementary school in DETROIT, Michigan. The school teaches kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 352 students.

Detroit Achievement Academy is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.

Of every 100 students at Detroit Achievement Academy, about 97 are Black. After that, the student body is 2% White. Census figures show Wayne County is about 37% Black. A diversity index of 7% means there is a 7% chance two randomly chosen students at Detroit Achievement Academy are from different groups.

Detroit Achievement Academy has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 16.8:1. Elementary schools in Michigan have an average ratio of 15.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 84%. The rate at public schools in Wayne County averages 66%, lower than here.

In Wayne County, median household income comes to about $60,539, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 16%. The county's public schools total 573, with about 259,786 students.

Renaissance High School sits about 0.3 miles from Detroit Achievement Academy. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8.

Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Detroit Achievement Academy is a publicly funded charter school.

Federal data put enrollment at 220 in 2020-21 and 352 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 16.8:1, from 18.3:1.

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