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Detroit Public Schools Community District

Detroit, Michigan · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

48,828
Students enrolled
104
Public schools
3,032
Classroom teachers (FTE)
16.1:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 380
  • Kindergarten 3,705
  • Grade 1 3,941
  • Grade 2 4,031
  • Grade 3 4,124
  • Grade 4 3,771
  • Grade 5 3,835
  • Grade 6 3,556
  • Grade 7 3,506
  • Grade 8 3,314
  • Grade 9 4,161
  • Grade 10 3,832
  • Grade 11 3,321
  • Grade 12 3,020
  • Ungraded 331

By race/ethnicity

  • Black or African American 79%
  • Hispanic/Latino 16%
  • White 2%
  • Asian 2%
  • Two or more races <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

85% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 41,191 of 48,442 students in the 101 of its 103 schools that report
  • Free lunch 83%
  • Reduced-price lunch 2%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$21,406 spent per student on day-to-day operations Michigan median: $14,724 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $10,514
  • Support services $9,925
  • Other (food service, etc.) $966

Where the money comes from

  • Local 32%
  • State 53%
  • Federal 16%

Total revenue $1.4 billiontotal spending $1.1 billion

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

City: Large

Total staff (FTE)

6,928

District office

3011 W GRAND BLVD, Detroit MI 48202

Official website

NCES District ID

2601103

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