Detroit Prep

As a mid-sized elementary school in DETROIT, Michigan, Detroit Prep teaches 418 students from grades K through 8, one of the schools within Detroit Achievement Academy.

Detroit Achievement Academy comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 770 students; Detroit Prep is among them.

Demographically, Detroit Prep logs that 53% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 35% White, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Detroit Prep sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.1%; this one delivers 47.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Detroit Prep is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Nichols ElementaryMiddle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Detroit Prep operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 457%: 75 students in 2018 compared to 418 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 47% to 53%. Class-load math has widened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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