Quest Charter Academy

Quest Charter Academy is one of the heavily attended elementary campuss in TAYLOR, Michigan, one of the schools within Quest Charter Academy, with 683 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 85% above typical.

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

On the student-mix side, Quest Charter Academy logs that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 24% White, 12% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Quest Charter Academy logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Quest Charter Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Quest Charter Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.7%, the actual is 27.3%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wayne County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Quest Charter Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Thorne Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Quest Charter Academy operates from a residential location. As a public charter, Quest Charter Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Quest Charter Academy has edged down 11%, going from 764 students in 2018 to 683 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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