Oakside Prep Academy

Oakside Prep Academy, a big unified-grade school in WATERFORD, Michigan, operated by Oakside Prep Academy, educates 1,424 students, covering grades K through 12. That puts it 407% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 281 students.

Oakside Prep Academy is a school of Oakside Prep Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Oakside Prep Academy logs that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 39% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% White. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Oakside Prep Academy lists 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oakside Prep Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.0%, the actual is 27.1%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Oakland County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Oakland County runs 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), of which Oakside Prep Academy is one.

Donelson Hills Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oakside Prep Academy.

Oakside Prep Academy operates from an outer-ring location. Oakside Prep Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Oakside Prep Academy's enrollment has increased 94% since 2018, when it stood at 735 (now 1,424). Class-load math has grew: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

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