Henderson Academy

Set in DETROIT, Michigan, Henderson Academy is a high-enrollment elementary school, operated by Detroit Public Schools Community District. It teaches 558 students across grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 51% above the state mean of about 369.

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

On demographics, Henderson Academy lists that nearly all students (96%) are Black. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Henderson Academy has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Henderson Academy is one.

Detroit Innovation Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Henderson Academy has declined 30%, going from 800 students in 2018 to 558 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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