Roberto Clemente Learning Academy

Set in DETROIT, Michigan, Roberto Clemente Learning Academy is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, part of Detroit Public Schools Community District. It hosts 521 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Roberto Clemente Learning Academy sits 41% bigger than that benchmark.

Roberto Clemente Learning Academy is one of 103 schools operated by Detroit Public Schools Community District, a district that instructs 48,448 students overall.

On demographics, Roberto Clemente Learning Academy reports that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 5% White, 4% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Roberto Clemente Learning Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.7%, the actual is 21.1%, a residual of -6.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Roberto Clemente Learning Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cesar Chavez Academy Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roberto Clemente Learning Academy. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Roberto Clemente Learning Academy ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Roberto Clemente Learning Academy's enrollment has decreased 19% since 2018, when it stood at 643 (now 521). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.