Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies operates as a sizable primary school in DETROIT, Michigan, one of the schools within Detroit Public Schools Community District. Current enrollment sits at 715 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 94% bigger than typical.
Detroit Public Schools Community District comprises 103 schools with combined enrollment of 48,448 students; Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies is among them.
On the student-mix side, Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies records that 98% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.9%; this one delivers 42.9%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wayne County) shows that median household earnings sit near $60,539, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).
Randolph Career and Technical Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies's enrollment has increased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 681 (now 715). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.
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