Reach Charter Academy

Reach Charter Academy operates as a mid-sized primary school in ROSEVILLE, Michigan, operated by Reach Charter Academy. Current enrollment sits at 528 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Reach Charter Academy sits 43% bigger than that benchmark.

Operationally, Reach Charter Academy answers to Reach Charter Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Reach Charter Academy reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%); the rest breaks down as 10% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Reach Charter Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.9%, the actual is 21.1%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Macomb County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Reach Charter Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Eastpointe Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Reach Charter Academy ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. Reach Charter Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Reach Charter Academy has shrank 16%, going from 630 students in 2018 to 528 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 6% to 2% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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