Lee M Thurston High School

As a substantial 9-12 campus in REDFORD, Michigan, Lee M Thurston High School instructs 806 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within South Redford School District. Enrollment runs roughly 75% above the state mean of about 460.

Lee M Thurston High School is one of 7 schools operated by South Redford School District, a district that works with 2,753 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lee M Thurston High School reports that nearly all students (80%) are Black. The remainder is composed of 9% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Lee M Thurston High School is one campus in the mix.

SOAR Academic Institute is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lee M Thurston High School.

Lee M Thurston High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lee M Thurston High School has declined 17%, going from 975 students in 2018 to 806 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 16% to 9%.

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