Detroit Innovation Academy

Families in DETROIT, Michigan, are served by Detroit Innovation Academy, a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 335 students.

Detroit Innovation Academy operates as its own local education agency.

At Detroit Innovation Academy, 99% of students are Black. For comparison, the population of Wayne County is roughly 37% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Detroit Innovation Academy scores 3%.

Detroit Innovation Academy reported 22 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 15.2:1. That is in line with the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan. There are 291 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 87% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Wayne County averages 66%, lower than here.

In Wayne County, the median household earns about $60,539 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 16% of people live in poverty. Wayne County has 573 public schools with about 259,786 students, including Detroit Innovation Academy.

Of the public schools around it, Detroit Innovation Academy is closest to Cody High School, about 0.7 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

The NCES locale for Detroit Innovation Academy is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Detroit Innovation Academy is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Detroit Innovation Academy had a net loss of 10 students, or 3%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 18.2 to 15.2 over 4 years.

The allk12 page for Detroit Innovation Academy lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.