Fostering Leadership Academy

Fostering Leadership Academy is a very small elementary-level community in REDFORD, Michigan, operated by Fostering Leadership Academy. The school teaches 76 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Fostering Leadership Academy sits 79% smaller than that benchmark.

Fostering Leadership Academy sits inside Fostering Leadership Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, Fostering Leadership Academy shows that 100% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Fostering Leadership Academy is one campus in the mix.

Hilbert Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a residential site. Fostering Leadership Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.