New Paradigm Glazer Academy

New Paradigm Glazer Academy is a compact K-5 school in DETROIT, Michigan, part of New Paradigm Glazer-Loving Academy. The school teaches 211 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 43% leaner than the state mean of about 369.

New Paradigm Glazer-Loving Academy is the operating authority for New Paradigm Glazer Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, New Paradigm Glazer Academy reports that 99% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting New Paradigm Glazer Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Across the wider county, census data for Wayne County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 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 New Paradigm Glazer Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Covenant School Spectrum, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. New Paradigm Glazer Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 209 students in 2018 compared to 211 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 29.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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