Hamilton Academy

Set in DETROIT, Michigan, Hamilton Academy is a medium-sized primary school, operated by Detroit Public Schools Community District. It caters to 358 students across grades pre-K through 8.

Detroit Public Schools Community District comprises 103 schools with combined enrollment of 48,448 students; Hamilton Academy is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hamilton Academy shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (99%). The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Hamilton Academy logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 97% of students at Hamilton Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, census data for Wayne County shows median household income runs about $60,539, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Hamilton Academy is one campus in the mix.

Ronald Brown Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hamilton Academy.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

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