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What advice would you give to incoming students at Murray Lake Elementary?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
English Language Arts
76.1%
State avg 47.7%
District avg 60.4%
County avg 57.4%
District avg 60.4%
County avg 57.4%
Test scores
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M-STEP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Advanced + Proficient.Mathematics
66.0%
State avg 44.8%
District avg 60.2%
County avg 54.4%
District avg 60.2%
County avg 54.4%
Science
73.3%
State avg 47.5%
District avg 63.8%
County avg 55.9%
District avg 63.8%
County avg 55.9%
Social Studies
61.3%
State avg 47.7%
District avg 54.1%
County avg 56.9%
District avg 54.1%
County avg 56.9%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 66 of 100 do math at grade level, about 73 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 61 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48, 45, 47, and 48.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.1%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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.| Grade | English Language Arts | Mathematics | Science | Social Studies | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| Grade 3 | 77.0% | 45.7% | 61 | 62.3% | 51.3% | 61 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 4 | 75.4% | 48.1% | 73 | 86.3% | 49.1% | 73 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 5 | 76.0% | 51.2% | 75 | 49.3% | 41.8% | 75 | 73.3% | 46.6% | 75 | 61.3% | 39.5% | 75 |
1-year history
All grades, all students. Murray Lake Michigan avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 76.1% | 60.4% | 57.4% | 47.7% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 66.0% | 60.2% | 54.4% | 44.8% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 73.3% | 63.8% | 55.9% | 47.5% |
Social Studies
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 61.3% | 54.1% | 56.9% | 47.7% |
Recent discussions
From the Murray Lake Elementary community.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 76.1% mean for English Language Arts at Murray Lake Elementary?
It means about 76.1 percent of students tested at Murray Lake 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.