Rising Stars Academy

Rising Stars Academy is a 9-12 campus of rural-scale scale in CENTER LINE, Michigan, part of Rising Stars Academy, enrolling 64 students in grade 12. That puts it 86% leaner than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 460 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Rising Stars Academy logs that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 39% White, 11% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at Rising Stars Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Macomb County) shows 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), Rising Stars Academy is one campus in the mix.

Success Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a residential setting. As a public charter, Rising Stars Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rising Stars Academy has rose 60%, going from 40 students in 2018 to 64 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 58% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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