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Oakley W Best Middle School · DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI
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M-STEP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Advanced + Proficient.
English Language Arts
N/A
State avg 47.7%
District avg 28.3%
County avg 43.7%
Mathematics
15.5%
State avg 44.8%
District avg 20.9%
County avg 41.7%
Science
N/A
State avg 47.5%
District avg 23.4%
County avg 40.7%
Social Studies
35.0%
State avg 47.7%
District avg 35.0%
County avg 43.7%

What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school do math at grade level and about 35 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 45 and 48.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.3%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 6N/A46.3%N/A15.5%40.1%174N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 8N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A48.5%N/A35.0%54.7%200

1-year history

All grades, all students. Oakley W Best   Michigan avg

Mathematics

45162024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2515.5%20.9%41.7%44.8%

Social Studies

48352024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2535.0%35.0%43.7%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.
How should I read a single score?
Each percent represents the share of tested students who performed at grade level or above. Compare the school number against the state, district, and county averages on this page to see whether it is above or below typical.
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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