Rutherford Winans Academy

Set in DETROIT, Michigan, Rutherford Winans Academy is a cozy elementary-level community, overseen by Rutherford Winans Academy. It educates 152 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Rutherford Winans Academy sits 59% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Rutherford Winans Academy shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (97%). By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 92% of students at Rutherford Winans Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Wayne County) records that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Rutherford Winans Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Old Redford Academy High, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Rutherford Winans Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 31%: 221 students in 2018 compared to 152 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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