Great Oaks Academy

Located at 4257 BART AVE, in WARREN, Michigan, Great Oaks Academy is a heavily attended elementary campus that enrolls 768 students (grades K through 8), part of Great Oaks Academy. Enrollment runs roughly 108% bigger than the state mean of about 369.

Great Oaks Academy is the operating authority for Great Oaks Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Great Oaks Academy logs that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 11% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Macomb County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Great Oaks Academy has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at Great Oaks Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Great Oaks Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.1%; this one delivers 37.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Macomb County) reports that median household earnings sit near $77,837, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Macomb County runs 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), of which Great Oaks Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Fitzgerald Senior High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Great Oaks Academy at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 27.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, Great Oaks Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Great Oaks Academy's enrollment has edged up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 739 (now 768). The Black share of enrollment fell from 89% to 81% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.