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Waterford, Michigan - 2 schools
2,304
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Oakland Schools operates 2 public schools serving 2,304 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 combined 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 Oakland County.
The funding mix is 68.4% local, 14.9% state, and 16.7% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
. Demographically, the student body averages 46.8% White, 33.7% Asian, 7.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is International Academy, enrolling 1,370 students (82% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Virtual Learning Academy Consortium, at 298 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
International Academy accounts for 59.5% of all Oakland Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Oakland Schools a distant remainder — means Oakland Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.