Detroit Community Schools High School

Set in DETROIT, Michigan, Detroit Community Schools High School is a compact secondary school, run under Detroit Community Schools. It enrolls 299 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 35% smaller than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 460 students.

Across the 2 schools in Detroit Community Schools (665 students total), Detroit Community Schools High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Detroit Community Schools High School shows that 100% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Detroit Community Schools High School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 83% 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%.

In the surrounding community, 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%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Detroit Community Schools High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Detroit Community Schools Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, Detroit Community Schools High School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 327 students in 2018 compared to 299 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Detroit Community Schools High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.