WAY Academy Flint Flint Campus

WAY Academy Flint Flint Campus is one of the one-room-style high schools in FLINT, Michigan, overseen by WAY Academy - Flint, with 95 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 79% below the state mean of about 460.

WAY Academy Flint Flint Campus sits inside WAY Academy - Flint, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, WAY Academy Flint Flint Campus shows that Black students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school reports 21% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Native American. By comparison, Genesee County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at WAY Academy Flint Flint Campus qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Genesee County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Genesee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,281 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. WAY Academy Flint Flint Campus is one of 158 public schools in Genesee County (combined enrollment of about 58,534 students).

Flint Cultural Center Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. WAY Academy Flint Flint Campus operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools. Instruction is delivered virtually rather than at a physical campus, and enrollment crosses district lines.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WAY Academy Flint Flint Campus has shrank 41%, going from 162 students in 2018 to 95 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 30% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the WAY Academy Flint Flint Campus community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.