Detroit Public Schools Community District
Detroit, MI · 105 schools · 48,251 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Detroit Public Schools Community District has 105 schools serving 48,251 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 36%. The average graduation rate is 72%.
Detroit Public Schools Community District operates 105 public schools, including Cass Technical High School, Western International High School, Renaissance High School, Munger ElementaryMiddle School, Earhart ElementaryMiddle School and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Detroit Public Schools Community District is approximately 72% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Detroit Public Schools Community District is Cass Technical High School with 2,395 students.
Detroit Public Schools Community District serves 48,251 students across 105 schools in MI, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Detroit Public Schools Community District's average proficiency rate of 36% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is below average and may indicate room for improvement. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Detroit Public Schools Community District to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.