Westwood Virtual Academy

Westwood Virtual Academy, an one-room-style secondary school in INKSTER, Michigan, operated by Westwood Community School District, hosts 174 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Westwood Virtual Academy sits 62% leaner than that benchmark.

Westwood Community School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,502 students; Westwood Virtual Academy is among them.

On demographics, Westwood Virtual Academy logs that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 46% Black, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 154.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Wayne County) records that 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%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Westwood Virtual Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Daly School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. Instruction is delivered virtually rather than at a physical campus, and enrollment crosses district lines.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westwood Virtual Academy has held roughly steady, going from 170 students in 2018 to 174 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 38% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 31.5:1 in 2018 to 154.0:1 in 2025.

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