Summary:
The 48215 zip code area in Detroit is home to 3 schools, including 2 elementary/middle schools and 1 high school. These schools face significant challenges, with consistently low academic performance, high chronic absenteeism, and disparities in per-student spending.
Detroit Merit Charter Academy and Carstens ElementaryMiddle School both serve elementary and middle grade students, with Detroit Merit Charter Academy being the largest school in the area with 703 students. Both schools have very high percentages of African American students, ranging from 92% to 99%, and struggle with low proficiency rates on state assessments, with the highest proficiency rate being just 39.4% in 7th-grade English Language Arts at Detroit Merit Charter Academy.
The only high school in the area, Davis Aerospace Technical High School at Golightly, has a relatively diverse student population but also faces challenges, including a high dropout rate of 16.6% and low proficiency rates on the 11th-grade M-Step Science assessment. Interestingly, this high school has the highest per-student spending at $32,818, significantly more than the elementary/middle schools in the area.
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