Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology

Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology operates as a heavily attended four-year high school in SOUTHFIELD, Michigan, part of Southfield Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,049 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 128% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 460 students.

Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology is one of 13 schools operated by Southfield Public School District, a district that educates 4,692 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%); the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology shows 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Oakland County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Oakland County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,760, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology is one campus in the mix.

Laurus Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology's enrollment has contracted 35% since 2018, when it stood at 1,617 (now 1,049). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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