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Test scores

M-STEP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Advanced + Proficient.
English Language Arts
23.0%
State avg 47.7%
District avg 28.8%
County avg 43.7%
Mathematics
27.3%
State avg 44.8%
District avg 25.9%
County avg 41.7%
Science
N/A
State avg 47.5%
District avg 33.3%
County avg 40.7%
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 47.7%
District avg 24.9%
County avg 43.7%

What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
25.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.7%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.5pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 42% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.

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 319.7%45.7%8124.7%51.3%81N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 426.3%48.1%8030.0%49.1%80N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

1-year history

All grades, all students. Edgemont   Michigan avg

English Language Arts

48232024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2523.0%28.8%43.7%47.7%

Mathematics

45272024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2527.3%25.9%41.7%44.8%

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 23.0% mean for English Language Arts at Edgemont Elementary School?
It means about 23.0 percent of students tested at Edgemont 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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