An equity score of 43/100 ranks Detroit Community Schools #463 of 702 districts in Michigan (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,197 per pupil, Detroit Community Schools ranks #682 of 812 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending (Michigan districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
568
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$12,197
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Detroit Community Schools operates 2 public schools serving 568 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Wayne County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,197 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 812 Michigan districts by per-pupil spending. See how Michigan compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 4.1% local, 63.2% state, and 32.7% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 43/100, ranked #463 of 702 in Michigan against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 56.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 99.7% African American, 0.1% White across the district's schools.
Detroit Community Schools Elementary accounts for 55.0% of all Detroit Community Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Detroit Community Schools a distant remainder — means Detroit Community Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Detroit Community Schools reports 96.7% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Detroit Community Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 56.3% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.