Paramount Charter Academy

Paramount Charter Academy is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in KALAMAZOO, Michigan, run under Paramount Charter Academy, with 373 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

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

On the student-mix side, Paramount Charter Academy shows that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 24% multiracial, 17% White, 9% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 95% of students at Paramount Charter Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kalamazoo County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Kalamazoo County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,532 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Kalamazoo County's 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students), Paramount Charter Academy is one campus in the mix.

ParkwoodUpjohn Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. As a public charter, Paramount Charter Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 486 students in 2018 compared to 373 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.