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Detroit Country Day School

Beverly Hills · MI · Private independent · K-12 combined

Private
22 AP courses 18 National Merit Semifinalists

At a glance

Programs & features
  • 22 AP courses offered (school profile)
  • 18 National Merit SemifinalistsRoughly the top 1% of PSAT scorers in each state — about 16,000 juniors nationally. A useful gauge of a school's academic top end. (2026)
Academic signals
  • SAT avg 1304
  • ACT avg 27
  • APCollege-level courses with a national exam each May. A score of 3+ "passes" and can earn college credit; the pass rate tells you whether a school's AP program has substance behind the course list. exam pass rate 87%

Composed from the school's own published profile (2026), and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Detroit Country Day School compares for families

Among the academically strongest private schools in our database.

  • ▸ NationallySAT mean 1304 (≈ top 10% of US test-takers) · ACT mean 27.0 (≈ top 25%) · 87% AP pass rate (US average: ~60%) · 18 National Merit Semifinalists last year (NMSF is the top 1% of US PSAT scorers) · Top 5% of the 218 curated private schools in our database on NMSF concentration.
  • ▸ LocallyMI sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
  • ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Cranbrook Schools, The Roeper School, Brightmont Academy Birmingham and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Your state's public flagship

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

18%
admit rate
$17,736
in-state tuition/yr · $60,946 out-of-state
1350–1530
SAT 25–75 · ACT 31–34

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $13,138/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Their published matriculation list

Where their graduates enrolled

Detroit Country Day School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 126 colleges, in the document's own order.

Years, as the document states them
COLLEGE MATRICULATION 2023-2025

Alabama A & M University Albion College Alma College American University Amherst College Arizona State University Auburn University Baylor University Boston College Boston University Brandeis University Brown University Butler University California Institute of Technology Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Central Michigan University Chapman University Clemson University College for Creative Studies Dartmouth College Denison University DePaul University Duke University Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University George Washington University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology Grand Valley State University
and 96 more
Hampton University Harvard University High Point University Hope College Howard University Indiana University Johns Hopkins University Kalamazoo College Kettering University Lake Forest College Lehigh University Lincoln Memorial University Louisiana State University Loyola Marymount University Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Maryland Macalester College Macomb Community College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Miami University, Oxford Michigan State University Michigan Technological University Morehouse College Mount Holyoke College New York University North Carolina A & T State University Northeastern University Northern Michigan University Northwestern University Nova Southeastern University Oakland University Ohio State University Ohio Wesleyan University Otterbein University Pace University Pepperdine University Princeton University Purdue University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rochester Institute of Technology Rutgers University-New Brunswick Saginaw Valley State University Santa Clara University Savannah College of Art and Design Smith College Southern Methodist University SUNY at Albany Swarthmore College Texas A & M University Texas Christian University The New School The Pennsylvania State University The University of Alabama The University of Tampa The University of Tennessee The University of Texas at Austin Tufts University Tulane University of Louisiana University of Arizona University of California-Irvine University of California-Los Angeles University of California-Santa Barbara University of California-Santa Cruz University of Chicago University of Colorado, Boulder University of Dayton University of Denver University of Detroit Mercy University of Florida University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Kansas University of Melbourne University of Miami University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Dearborn University of Minnesota University of Mississippi University of Missouri University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of South Florida University of St Andrews University of Toledo University of Toronto University of Vermont University of Washington University of Wisconsin Vanderbilt University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Washington University in St Louis Wayne State University Wesleyan University Western Michigan University William & Mary Xavier University Yale University

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by Detroit Country Day School — School Profile, Class of 2026 (print date 9/5/25) ↗. Found at: p.4, table headed 'COLLEGE MATRICULATION 2023-2025' — 'DCDS Alumni are currently attending 126 different Colleges and Universities.'.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 1,439 in 2018 to 1,423 in 2022 — over 4 years.
-1.1%
Why only 3 data points?

Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.

For a more current snapshot, see Detroit Country Day School's own published school profile (as of 2026-27): resources.finalsite.net/images/v1758118122/detroi… ↗

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -0.3%/year, projecting from 2022's 1,423 students:

2023
1,419
2025
1,411
2027
1,403

≈ 20 fewer students by 2027 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue at risk

At tuition per student, the 20 students projected to be lost by 2027 represent ≈ $320,000/year in tuition at risk.

Tuition is an editable estimate (PSS doesn't publish tuition) — set it to your school's figure.

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