South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy

South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy is an elementary campus of well-populated scale in YPSILANTI, Michigan, one of the schools within South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy, teacheing 631 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 71% larger than typical.

Operationally, South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy answers to South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy records that the largest single group is Black at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 21% White, 19% Hispanic, 14% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Washtenaw County's rate of about 34%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 27.1%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Washtenaw County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $89,180 per year, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Washtenaw County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students), of which South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Achieve Charter Academy, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area. South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy has ticked down 18%, going from 774 students in 2018 to 631 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 39% to 21% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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