Public school / High / Charter
Way Academy Chicago Site
Detroit, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 260102308423
- District
- W-A-Y Academy
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Way Academy Chicago Site is a public high school in Detroit, Michigan, run by W-A-Y Academy. It enrols 90 students — the 88173rd 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
90
Free or reduced-price lunch
96.7%
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.
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 W-A-Y Academy
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.
- 1Way Academy Vernor Site105 students
- 2Way Academy Chicago Site90 students
- Enrollment−76.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+63.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
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