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Pathways Academy → Horizon High School → Detroit Public Safety Academy → The SER Learning Academy East → SER Metro YouthBuild Learning Academy → Covenant High School Southwest → Academy for Business and Technology High School → Davis Aerospace Technical High School at Golightly →At a glance
- Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- 4-yr grad rate: 24% in 2019 (Bottom 4% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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How WAY Michigan compares for families
What families should know about WAY Michigan.
- ▸ 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: Pathways Academy, Horizon High School, Detroit Public Safety Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 4% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Your state's public flagship
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2021 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -7.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 156 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pathways Academy DETROIT |
Public · charter | 4.3 | 126 | +40.0% |
| Horizon High School HAMTRAMCK |
Public | 4.8 | 125 | -8.8% |
| Detroit Public Safety Academy DETROIT |
Public · charter | 1.4 | 156 | -3.7% |
| The SER Learning Academy East DETROIT |
Public · charter | 5.0 | 107 | +46.6% |
| SER Metro YouthBuild Learning Academy DEARBORN |
Public · charter | 5.7 | 109 | +6.9% |
| Covenant High School Southwest DETROIT |
Public · charter | 2.3 | 164 | -6.3% |
| Academy for Business and Technology High School MELVINDALE |
Public · charter | 8.9 | 130 | -18.2% |
| Davis Aerospace Technical High School at Golightly DETROIT |
Public | 5.3 | 96 | -42.5% |
At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantWAY Michigan is a public high school in Detroit, MI, enrolling 156 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 24% in the latest EDFacts release.
87% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.
Questions families ask
What is WAY Michigan's graduation rate? WAY Michigan's federal four-year graduation rate was about 24% in the latest EDFacts release.
How many students attend WAY Michigan? WAY Michigan is a public high school in Detroit, MI, enrolling 156 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.
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