Legacy Charter Academy

As a high-enrollment elementary-level community in DETROIT, Michigan, Legacy Charter Academy hosts 738 students from grades K through 8, overseen by Legacy Charter Academy. That puts it 100% larger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Operationally, Legacy Charter Academy answers to Legacy Charter Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Legacy Charter Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%); the rest breaks down as 8% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Legacy Charter Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.4%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of +9.3 points.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 16%. Legacy Charter Academy is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

Pershing High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. Legacy Charter Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Legacy Charter Academy has ticked down 3%, going from 759 students in 2018 to 738 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 98% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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