Wayne Elementary School

Located at 10633 COURVILLE ST, in DETROIT, Michigan, Wayne Elementary School is a close-knit elementary school that teaches 234 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Detroit Public Schools Community District. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Detroit Public Schools Community District comprises 103 schools with combined enrollment of 48,448 students; Wayne Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Wayne Elementary School lists that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Wayne Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Denby High School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Wayne Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Wayne Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 234). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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