Linden Charter Academy

Linden Charter Academy is one of the sprawling K-5 schools in FLINT, Michigan, operated by Linden Charter Academy, with 789 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 114% larger than the state mean of about 369.

Linden Charter Academy is the operating authority for Linden Charter Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, Linden Charter Academy logs that 82% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 10% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.9:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Genesee County's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Linden Charter Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Genesee County indicate median household income runs about $62,281, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Genesee County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students), Linden Charter Academy is one campus in the mix.

Genesee County Juvenile Justice Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Linden Charter Academy.

Linden Charter Academy operates from a commuter-belt location. Linden 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. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 766 students in 2018 compared to 789 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 94% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

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