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Test scores

M-STEP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Advanced + Proficient.
English Language Arts
58.1%
State avg 47.7%
District avg 49.8%
County avg 44.1%
Mathematics
51.9%
State avg 44.8%
District avg 50.3%
County avg 39.2%
Science
38.8%
State avg 47.5%
District avg 49.2%
County avg 42.3%
Social Studies
23.9%
State avg 47.7%
District avg 46.2%
County avg 43.9%

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.0%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
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 350.9%45.7%5756.2%51.3%57N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 464.1%48.1%6450.8%49.1%65N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 558.5%51.2%6549.2%41.8%6538.8%46.6%6723.9%39.5%67

1-year history

All grades, all students. Hevel   Michigan avg

English Language Arts

48582024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2558.1%49.8%44.1%47.7%

Mathematics

45522024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2551.9%50.3%39.2%44.8%

Science

47392024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2538.8%49.2%42.3%47.5%

Social Studies

48242024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2523.9%46.2%43.9%47.7%

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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 58.1% mean for English Language Arts at Hevel Elementary?
It means about 58.1 percent of students tested at Hevel Elementary 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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