Schools · Detroit
Detroit, MI schools
Detroit’s public schools score well below Michigan’s averages: 24% of students are proficient in reading against 47.9% statewide, and 72% of high schoolers graduate on time against 82.9%. Kids attend Fisher Magnet Academy or Keidan Special Education Center through grade 8, then Communication and Media Arts High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C−
Detroit’s School Grade: C-
The public schools Detroit’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 79% of Michigan’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
C-Test scoresC-Graduation
Michigan school districts we grade (796)Better than 21%
Lower resultsHigher results
Michigan towns with similar household incomes (244)Better than 12%
High confidence. Built on 3,419 tested students and a graduating class of 3,583; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Michigan’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Michigan only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Michigan with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Detroit kids go to school
Grades PK–8
Fisher Magnet Academy or D-Keidan Special Education Center
Depends on your address Detroit Public Schools Community DistrictGrades 9–12
CCommunication and Media Arts High School
349 students · Detroit Detroit Public Schools Community DistrictBased on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Detroit Public Schools Community)24%
State average 47.9%
Math (grades PK–12, Detroit Public Schools Community)10%
State average 34.6%
Graduation · class of 2020
72% graduate on time
Graduation rate
72%
MI: 82.9%
Graduating class
3,583
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #484 of 536 MI towns →
Districts
The district serving Detroit
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 204 schools in Detroit
Showing 1–30 of 204 schools
Earhart ElementaryMiddle SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 1,002 students
DPublicMunger ElementaryMiddle SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 954 students
C-PublicDetroit Edison Public School AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 901 students
C-CharterJohn R King Academic and Performing Arts AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 879 students
DPublicMackenzie ElementaryMiddle SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 876 students
D-PublicDetroit Service Learning Academy CampusElementary · Grades PK–8 · 847 students
C-CharterRonald Brown AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 834 students
DPublicVoyageur AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 789 students
DCharterBates AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 773 students
B+PublicDavison ElementaryMiddle SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 765 students
C+PublicFisher Magnet AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 758 students
PublicBrenda Scott Academy for Theatre ArtsElementary · Grades PK–8 · 754 students
DPublicGompers ElementaryMiddle SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 749 students
CPublicLegacy Charter AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 738 students
C-CharterDetroit Merit Charter AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 719 students
C-CharterForeign Language Immersion and Cultural StudiesElementary · Grades PK–8 · 715 students
A-PublicRegent Park Scholars Charter AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 707 students
C-CharterDetroit Premier AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 706 students
C-CharterDetroit Academy of Arts and SciencesElementary · Grades PK–5 · 694 students
DCharterCharles Wright Academy of Arts and ScienceElementary · Grades PK–8 · 692 students
DPublicMary McLeod Bethune ElementaryMiddle SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 692 students
PublicDetroit Enterprise AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 686 students
C-CharterWarrendale Charter AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 680 students
C-CharterPriest ElementaryMiddle SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 673 students
DPublicFlagship Charter AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 655 students
DCharterDurfee ElementaryMiddle SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 632 students
D-PublicSchulze Academy for Technology and ArtsElementary · Grades PK–8 · 630 students
C-PublicEdward Duke Ellington at BeckhamElementary · Grades PK–8 · 560 students
CPublicHenderson AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 558 students
DPublicEmerson ElementaryMiddle SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 532 students
D-PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.