Red Oak Academy

Red Oak Academy is an elementary-level community of tiny scale in CLINTON TWP, Michigan, part of Red Oak Academy, teacheing 60 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 84% below the state mean of about 369.

Red Oak Academy is the operating authority for Red Oak Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Red Oak Academy shows that 55% of the student body identifies as Asian. The remainder is composed of 35% White, 8% Black. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.

On the resource side, On paper, Red Oak Academy has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Red Oak Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, Macomb County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,837, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Red Oak Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Charles C McGlinnen School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Red Oak Academy.

The campus sits in a suburban setting. Red Oak Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.