Great Lakes Academy

Great Lakes Academy is a small elementary school with an address in PONTIAC, Michigan. The school counted 162 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 8. That is 56% below the average of about 369 students for elementary schools in Michigan.

Great Lakes Academy operates as its own local education agency.

Of every 100 students at Great Lakes Academy, about 81 are Black. It is also 12% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Oakland County is roughly 13% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 32, compared with 70 nationally.

Staffing at Great Lakes Academy comes to 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.5:1. Elementary schools in Michigan have an average ratio of 15.8:1. On the income side, 88% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 32% average among public schools in Oakland County.

In Oakland County, the median household earns about $97,760 a year, about 51% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Across Oakland County, 345 public schools serve about 169,926 students.

Flex High School of Pontiac, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

NCES describes the area around Great Lakes Academy as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. Great Lakes Academy is a public charter school.

Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 7%, from 152 to 162. Students per teacher dropped from 15.2 in 2020-21 to 12.5 in 2024-25.

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