LANSING -- Michigan State Superintendent Mike Flanagan announced 27 schools have been taken off the state's priority status list after they moved out of the lowest achieving 5 percent of schools.
Mike Flanagan, Michigan's state superintendent
The 27 schools all had to submit and follow redesign plans that would take them out of the bottom 5 percent of schools on the state's Top to Bottom list, meet academic growth objectives in math and reading and meet the required 95 percent student participation rate on state assessments.
Some of the schools had been on the list since 2010, and Flanagan said they all had accomplished their goals.
"Their hard work and focus on data-driven decisions have positively impacted student achievement outcomes," Flanagan said in a statement. "The educators in these schools are leading a transformation for the children in their classrooms."
The next step for the schools is to develop and submit more traditional school improvement plans to the state to continue their growth, according to the Michigan Department of Education.
The 27 schools are:
- Bloomingdale Middle and High School, Bloomingdale Public School District
- Ross Beatty High School, Cassopolis Public Schools
- Clintondale High School, Clintondale Community Schools
- Michigan Collegiate High, Conner Creek Academy East
- Holmes Elementary-Middle School, Detroit City School District
- Hutchinson Elementary-Middle School, Detroit City School District
- Schulze Elementary-Middle School, Detroit City School District
- Detroit Community High School, Detroit Community Schools
- Brenda Scott Academy for Theatre Arts, Education Achievement Authority
- University High School, Ferndale Public Schools
- Fitzgerald Senior High School, Fitzgerald Public Schools
- Lee High School, Godfrey-Lee Public Schools
- Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts, Kalamazoo Public Schools
- Kent City High School, Kent City Community Schools
- Lakeview High School, Lakeview Community Schools (Montcalm County)
- Lincoln Park Middle School, Lincoln Park School District
- Marion High School, Marion Public Schools
- Trix Elementary, Michigan Educational Choice Center
- E.A. Johnson Memorial High School, Mt. Morris Consolidated Schools
- New Haven High School, New Haven Community Schools
- Eastland Middle School, Roseville Community Schools
- Roseville Middle School, Roseville Community Schools
- Ross-Hill Academy Elementary, Ross-Hill Academy
- Thompson Middle School, Saginaw School District
- Waldron Middle School, Waldron Area Schools
- Waverly Middle School, Waverly Community Schools
- Hamady Community High School, Westwood Heights Schools
Kyle Feldscher is the Capitol education and MSU reporter for MLive Media Group. Reach him via email at kylefeldscher@mlive.com or follow him on Twitter at @Kyle_Feldscher. Read more stories here.