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What's something Palmer Park Preparatory Academy does better than most schools?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
English Language Arts
31.4%
State avg 47.7%
District avg 35.9%
County avg 43.7%
District avg 35.9%
County avg 43.7%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Michigan schools by score · Wayne County schools by score
M-STEP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Advanced + Proficient.Mathematics
N/A
State avg 44.8%
District avg 31.7%
County avg 41.7%
District avg 31.7%
County avg 41.7%
Science
N/A
State avg 47.5%
District avg 30.3%
County avg 40.7%
District avg 30.3%
County avg 40.7%
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 47.7%
District avg 37.0%
County avg 43.7%
District avg 37.0%
County avg 43.7%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Michigan average is about 48 of 100.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 | 29.4% | 45.7% | 34 | N/A | 51.3% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 5 | 52.4% | 51.2% | 21 | N/A | 41.8% | N/A | N/A | 46.6% | N/A | N/A | 39.5% | N/A |
| Grade 6 | 24.0% | 46.3% | 50 | N/A | 40.1% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
1-year history
All grades, all students. Palmer Park Preparatory Academy Michigan avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 31.4% | 35.9% | 43.7% | 47.7% |
Recent discussions
From the Palmer Park Preparatory Academy 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 31.4% mean for English Language Arts at Palmer Park Preparatory Academy?
It means about 31.4 percent of students tested at Palmer Park Preparatory Academy 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.