MacDowell Preparatory Academy

MacDowell Preparatory Academy is a medium-sized elementary school in DETROIT, Michigan, one of the schools in MacDowell Preparatory Academy. The school enrolls 362 students, from pre-K through 8.

Federal records list MacDowell Preparatory Academy as its own district.

The large majority of students at MacDowell Preparatory Academy, 99%, are Black. The county population is about 37% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at MacDowell Preparatory Academy belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 2%.

The school reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 16.4 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Michigan average about 15.8:1, a similar figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 91%. That is 25 points above the 66% average for public schools in Wayne County.

According to the American Community Survey, in Wayne County, median household income is about $60,539, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 16%. MacDowell Preparatory Academy is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County, which together enroll about 259,786 students.

The shortest distance from MacDowell Preparatory Academy to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to Bates Academy. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is classified as a charter school in federal data.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 362, starting from 361. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 18.1:1 to 16.4:1.

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