Thurgood Marshall Elementary School

Thurgood Marshall Elementary School operates as a moderately sized primary school in DETROIT, Michigan, one of the schools within Detroit Public Schools Community District. Current enrollment sits at 451 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 369.

Across the 103 schools in Detroit Public Schools Community District (48,448 students total), Thurgood Marshall Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School logs that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Thurgood Marshall Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Joy Preparatory Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thurgood Marshall Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Thurgood Marshall Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 584 (now 451). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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