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Test scores

Carter Elementary School · MONTROSE, MI
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M-STEP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Advanced + Proficient.
English Language Arts
41.7%
State avg 47.7%
District avg 37.8%
County avg 43.0%
Mathematics
55.2%
State avg 44.8%
District avg 38.8%
County avg 40.7%
Science
N/A
State avg 47.5%
District avg 40.2%
County avg 43.9%
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 47.7%
District avg 32.5%
County avg 45.1%

What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
48.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.1%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.4pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 341.7%45.7%9655.2%51.3%96N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

1-year history

All grades, all students. Carter   Michigan avg

English Language Arts

48422024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2541.7%37.8%43.0%47.7%

Mathematics

45552024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2555.2%38.8%40.7%44.8%

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How to read these scores

What is M-STEP?
Michigan public-school students in grades 3 through 8 take the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) each spring in English Language Arts and Math. Science is added at grades 5, 8, and 11; Social Studies at grades 5, 8, and 11. High school students take the SAT and PSAT as part of the state assessment system.
What does "% Advanced + Proficient" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores were "Proficient" or "Advanced" on M-STEP — the top 2 of 4 performance levels (Not Proficient, Partially Proficient, Proficient, Advanced). Proficient and above is Michigan's grade-level benchmark. A higher number is better.
What does 41.7% mean for English Language Arts at Carter Elementary School?
It means about 41.7 percent of students tested at Carter Elementary School performed at grade level or above on the M-STEP English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Michigan that year was 47.7%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Michigan, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Michigan Department of Education / Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI), Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP), via the MI School Data "Request School Data File" portal (mischooldata.org). School-level All Students subgroup. Headline metric is the cumulative "Advanced + Proficient" rate (top 2 of 4 M-STEP levels: Advanced, Proficient, Partially Proficient, Not Proficient).
How often is it updated?
M-STEP is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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