Weston Preparatory Academy

Located at 22930 CHIPPEWA ST, in DETROIT, Michigan, Weston Preparatory Academy is an intimate elementary-level community that hosts 258 students (grades K through 8), overseen by Weston Preparatory Academy. Enrollment runs roughly 30% below the state mean of about 369.

Weston Preparatory Academy is a school of Weston Preparatory Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Weston Preparatory Academy lists that 100% 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 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Weston Preparatory Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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.

Zooming out to the county, Wayne County reports that 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%. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Weston Preparatory Academy is one.

Communication and Media Arts High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Weston Preparatory Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Weston Preparatory Academy's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 299 (now 258). Class-load math has rose: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 in 2025.

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