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Michigan schools ranked by test score

Latest M-STEP year (2024-25). 1,608 schools with reported English Language Arts scores. State average: 47.7%.
RankSchoolLevelEnglish Language Artsvs state
1601Emerson ElementaryMiddle School
DETROIT · Detroit Public Schools Community District
Elementary14.8%-32.9pp
1602Coloma Elementary School
COLOMA · Coloma Community Schools
Elementary14.6%-33.1pp
1603Ann J Kellogg School
BATTLE CREEK · Battle Creek Public Schools
Elementary14.3%-33.4pp
1604Whitman Elementary School
PONTIAC · Pontiac City School District
Elementary13.9%-33.8pp
1605Academy of The Americas High School
DETROIT · Detroit Public Schools Community District
Combined13.5%-34.2pp
1606Highpoint Virtual Academy of MIchigan
MESICK · Highpoint Virtual Academy of Michigan
Combined12.7%-35.0pp
1607Tyrone Elementary School
HARPER WOODS · Harper Woods The School District of the City of
Elementary12.2%-35.5pp
1608Verona Elementary School
BATTLE CREEK · Battle Creek Public Schools
Elementary11.9%-35.8pp
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About this ranking

Schools are ranked by the percentage of students who scored at or above the M-STEP % Advanced + Proficient threshold on the latest available M-STEP English Language Arts test (school year 2024-25). A higher percentage is better.

Only public schools with a reasonable cohort size are included (at least 50 total students enrolled, since the source file does not include per-subject student counts), so very small programs and special-purpose centers are filtered out.

The state average shown above is enrollment-weighted: we multiply each school's score by how many of its students tested, sum those across every public school in Michigan, and divide by the total students tested. This way a big school counts more than a tiny one in the typical-student average.