Public school / High
Ucs Alternative Learning Center
Sterling Heights, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 263447008727
- District
- Utica Community Schools
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Ucs Alternative Learning Center is a public high school in Sterling Heights, Michigan, run by Utica Community Schools. It enrols 196 students — the 78401st 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
196
Teachers
9.0
Students per teacher
21.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
69.4%
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 Utica Community Schools
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.
- 1Adlai Stevenson High School1,977 students
- 2Eisenhower High School1,835 students
- 3Henry Ford Ii High School1,717 students
- 4Utica High School1,368 students
- 5Malow Junior High School1,043 students
- 6Shelby Junior High School1,025 students
- 7Bemis Junior High School805 students
- 8Davis Junior High School728 students
- Enrollment−49.1%
- Teachers−59.1%
- Students per teacher+28.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+17.0%
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