Golightly Education Center

Golightly Education Center is a moderately sized elementary-level community in DETROIT, Michigan, run under Detroit Public Schools Community District. The school serves 412 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Golightly Education Center is one of 103 schools operated by Detroit Public Schools Community District, a district that hosts 48,448 students overall.

On demographics, Golightly Education Center lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (99%). By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Golightly Education Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.3%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of +12.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Wayne County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Golightly Education Center is one campus in the mix.

University Preparatory Academy PSAD Middle 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.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Golightly Education Center has expanded 9%, going from 378 students in 2018 to 412 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.