The Dearborn Academy

The Dearborn Academy is a mid-sized elementary school for students in DEARBORN, Michigan. Enrollment totals 518 students across pre-K through 8. That puts enrollment 40% above the 369-student average for elementary schools in Michigan.

The Dearborn Academy is its own local education agency in federal data.

The share of White students at The Dearborn Academy is 50%, a majority. It is also 41% Hispanic and 8% Black. Census estimates put Wayne County at about 49% White, close to the school's figure. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.

Classroom staffing at The Dearborn Academy totals 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.2:1. It is about the same as the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at The Dearborn Academy is about 94%. The average for public schools in Wayne County is 66%.

The school's county is Wayne County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $60,539 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 16%. Public schools in Wayne County number 573, with about 259,786 students.

Detroit Leadership Academy High School is about 0.2 miles from The Dearborn Academy, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

By NCES locale, the school is City: Mid-size, or inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. The Dearborn Academy is run as a public charter school.

Enrollment figures show a rise of 28 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.

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