Public school / Primary
Thompson K8 International Academy
Southfield, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 263231008202
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Thompson K8 International Academy is a public primary school in Southfield, Michigan, run by Southfield Public School District. It enrols 361 students — the 56836th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
361
Teachers
31.0
Students per teacher
11.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
68.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Southfield Public School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology1,208 students
- 2Adlai Stevenson Elementary School444 students
- 3Macarthur K8 University Academy423 students
- 4Alice M Birney K8 School404 students
- 5Thompson K8 International Academy361 students
- 6Mcintyre Elementary School360 students
- 7Morris Adler Elementary School336 students
- 8University High School Academy317 students
- Enrollment−6.2%
- Teachers+40.9%
- Students per teacher−31.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+14.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory