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Romulus Senior High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Romulus Senior High School
As a mid-tier high school in ROMULUS, Michigan, Romulus Senior High School instructs 518 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Romulus Community Schools.
Romulus Community Schools comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,058 students; Romulus Senior High School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Romulus Senior High School logs that Black students make up the majority at 76%. The remainder comes out to 14% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Wayne County put median household earnings sit near $60,539, 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), Romulus Senior High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Romulus Virtual Learning Center, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Romulus Senior High School.
Romulus Senior High School operates from a suburban location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Romulus Senior High School's enrollment has shrank 36% since 2018, when it stood at 806 (now 518). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.
On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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