Triumph Academy

Triumph Academy is a K-5 school of roomy scale in MONROE, Michigan, run under Triumph Academy, serveing 777 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 111% larger than typical.

Triumph Academy is the operating authority for Triumph Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Triumph Academy reports that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 15% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.

In terms of school funding signals, Triumph Academy reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Triumph Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Monroe County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Triumph Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.1%, the actual is 47.1%, a residual of +7.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,335, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monroe County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,286 students), of which Triumph Academy is one.

Arborwood Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Triumph Academy comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.

The school occupies a residential site. Triumph 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. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 8%: 720 students in 2018 compared to 777 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 68% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 today.

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