Marion Law Academy

As a mid-sized elementary school in DETROIT, Michigan, Marion Law Academy enrolls 386 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by Detroit Public Schools Community District.

Within Detroit Public Schools Community District, which oversees 103 schools and 48,448 students, Marion Law Academy is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Marion Law Academy shows that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the income-and-resources front, Marion Law Academy reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Marion Law Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household income runs about $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Marion Law Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cornerstone JeffersonDouglass Academy, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 476 students in 2018 compared to 386 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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