Detroit Premier Academy

Located at 7781 ASBURY PARK, in DETROIT, Michigan, Detroit Premier Academy is a heavily attended K-5 school that educates 706 students (grades K through 8), overseen by Detroit Premier Academy. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Detroit Premier Academy sits 91% bigger than that benchmark.

Operationally, Detroit Premier Academy answers to Detroit Premier Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Detroit Premier Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%). Other groups include 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the resource side, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Detroit Premier Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.1%, the actual is 20.2%, a residual of -5.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Wayne County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Detroit Premier Academy is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

Nearest neighbor: Gardner Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Detroit Premier Academy. On composite proficiency, Detroit Premier Academy comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. Detroit Premier Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Detroit Premier Academy has declined 6%, going from 754 students in 2018 to 706 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 95% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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