Washington-Parks Academy operates 1 public schools serving 580 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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.
The funding mix is 0.2% local, 56.9% state, and 42.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 60.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 99.0% African American, 0.2% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Washingtonparks Academy, enrolling 591 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Washingtonparks Academy accounts for 100.0% of all Washington-Parks Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Washington-Parks Academy a distant remainder — means Washington-Parks Academy-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Washington-Parks Academy reports 97.6% 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.
Washington-Parks Academy chronic absenteeism rate is 60.1% — 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.