Starkweather Academy Fiegel

As a cozy secondary school in PLYMOUTH, Michigan, Starkweather Academy Fiegel instructs 194 students from grades 10 through 12, overseen by Plymouth-Canton Community Schools. Compared to the state average of about 460 students per school, that is 58% below typical.

Across the 25 schools in Plymouth-Canton Community Schools (15,978 students total), Starkweather Academy Fiegel accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Starkweather Academy Fiegel shows that White students make up the majority at 64%; the rest comes out to 23% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at Starkweather Academy Fiegel 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 noticeably below typical.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Starkweather Academy Fiegel is one.

Johnson Upper Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Starkweather Academy Fiegel.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 214 students in 2018 compared to 194 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 17% to 23% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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