Melvindale High School

As a substantial secondary school in ALLEN PARK, Michigan, Melvindale High School hosts 982 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Melvindale-Northern Allen Park Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Melvindale High School sits 113% larger than that benchmark.

Melvindale-Northern Allen Park Schools comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,983 students; Melvindale High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Melvindale High School reports that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 28% Hispanic, 10% Black. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Melvindale High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Melvindale High School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

Nearest neighbor: Academy for Business and Technology High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Melvindale High School.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 1,023 students in 2018 compared to 982 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 27.3:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 in 2025.

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