Eastpointe Alternative Center

Eastpointe Alternative Center is a four-year high school of one-room-style scale in EASTPOINTE, Michigan, operated by Eastpointe Community Schools, serveing 3 students in grades 8 through 12. That puts it 99% smaller than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 460 students.

Eastpointe Alternative Center is one of 8 schools operated by Eastpointe Community Schools, a district that serves 2,114 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Eastpointe Alternative Center records that 100% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Macomb County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Eastpointe Alternative Center is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

The closest other public school is Eastpointe Virtual Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 97%: 114 students in 2018 compared to 3 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 86% to 100% across the same window.

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