English Language Arts
75.3%
State avg 47.7%
District avg 70.3%
County avg 47.4%
District avg 70.3%
County avg 47.4%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Michigan schools by score · Berrien County schools by score
M-STEP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Advanced + Proficient.Mathematics
77.6%
State avg 44.8%
District avg 71.3%
County avg 45.9%
District avg 71.3%
County avg 45.9%
Science
75.0%
State avg 47.5%
District avg 70.8%
County avg 48.1%
District avg 70.8%
County avg 48.1%
Social Studies
58.4%
State avg 47.7%
District avg 74.0%
County avg 49.6%
District avg 74.0%
County avg 49.6%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 78 of 100 do math at grade level, about 75 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 58 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
72.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.2%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Michigan's top 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 | 72.9% | 45.7% | 37 | 78.3% | 51.3% | 37 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 5 | 77.1% | 51.2% | 48 | 77.1% | 41.8% | 48 | 75.0% | 46.6% | 48 | 58.4% | 39.5% | 48 |
1-year history
All grades, all students. New Buffalo Michigan avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 75.3% | 70.3% | 47.4% | 47.7% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 77.6% | 71.3% | 45.9% | 44.8% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 75.0% | 70.8% | 48.1% | 47.5% |
Social Studies
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 58.4% | 74.0% | 49.6% | 47.7% |
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 75.3% mean for English Language Arts at New Buffalo Elementary School?
It means about 75.3 percent of students tested at New Buffalo 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.