Voyageur College Prep

As a middle-of-the-pack secondary school in DETROIT, Michigan, Voyageur College Prep enrolls 524 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Voyageur Academy.

Voyageur Academy comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,313 students; Voyageur College Prep is among them.

In terms of who attends, Voyageur College Prep shows that Black students make up the majority at 79%. Beyond that, the school reports 18% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Voyageur College Prep is one.

Voyageur Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Voyageur College Prep.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. Voyageur College Prep is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Voyageur College Prep has rose 17%, going from 447 students in 2018 to 524 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 11% to 18%.

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