YPSI Connected Community School

YPSI Connected Community School is an elementary school of tiny scale in YPSILANTI, Michigan, one of the schools within Ypsilanti Community Schools, caters to 74 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 80% below typical.

Ypsilanti Community Schools comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 3,260 students; YPSI Connected Community School is among them.

On demographics, YPSI Connected Community School shows that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% multiracial, 18% White, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Washtenaw County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, YPSI Connected Community School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 4.9:1. 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, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Washtenaw County's rate of about 34%.

Zooming out to the county, Washtenaw County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,180, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Washtenaw County's 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students), YPSI Connected Community School is one campus in the mix.

ACCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around YPSI Connected Community School.

The school occupies a suburban site.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.