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Hamady Community High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hamady Community High School
Hamady Community High School operates as an average-sized senior high in FLINT, Michigan, operated by Westwood Heights Schools. Current enrollment sits at 397 students spanning grades 9 through 12.
Westwood Heights Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,185 students. Hamady Community High School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Hamady Community High School reports that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 3% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Genesee County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Hamady Community High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Genesee County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Genesee County) records that median household earnings sit near $62,281, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Hamady Community High School is one of 158 public schools in Genesee County (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students).
The closest other public school is Hamady Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hamady Community High School.
The school occupies a residential site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hamady Community High School has ticked up 14%, going from 348 students in 2018 to 397 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.
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