Edsel Ford High School

Edsel Ford High School is a high school of big scale in DEARBORN, Michigan, part of Dearborn City School District, enrolling 1,502 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Edsel Ford High School sits 227% above that benchmark.

Within Dearborn City School District, which oversees 37 schools and 19,197 students, Edsel Ford High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Edsel Ford High School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Black, 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at Edsel Ford High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Wayne County put median household earnings sit near $60,539, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Edsel Ford High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Snow Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edsel Ford High School.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Edsel Ford High School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 1,474 (now 1,502). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.