Original Research by School Decision on Charlevoix Academy
Charlevoix Academy was a public charter school district in Michigan that served students from prekindergarten through grade twelve. It is no longer operating. The district's single school, also called Charlevoix Academy, closed at the end of the 2022-23 academic year after its board of education voted to cancel its contract with its authorizer, Saginaw Valley State University. According to publicly reported coverage, the closure followed a sustained decline in enrollment over roughly a decade, with the student body falling by more than half between an earlier school year and the year of closure. By the final year, the school was serving a very small number of students.
Because the school has closed, families in Charlevoix who might have chosen this public charter option now need to look to neighboring districts for enrollment. That is the most direct consequence a parent or resident should understand: this is not an active school to evaluate or choose among.
State assessment data for the 2022-23 year is entirely unavailable. Michigan's M-STEP and PSAT results for math, English language arts, science, and social studies at the tested grade levels are all marked as suppressed, with no tested students recorded in any subject at any grade. This means there is no academic performance picture to report. The suppression appears tied to the very small enrollment in the final year, which would result in too few tested students for results to be reported under privacy rules. We cannot confirm a specific reason from the data, but the pattern is consistent with a school of this size in its final year of operation.
Enrollment and demographic data are also missing entirely. The data sections do not provide total enrollment counts, grade-level breakdowns, racial or ethnic composition, free or reduced-price lunch rates, English learner counts, or special education rates for the current cycle. The publicly reported enrollment figure for the final year appears in the district brief, but the structured demographic fields are absent. We looked for these and found nothing, so we will not guess at a student composition that the data does not confirm.
No locale brief, community and economic context, or housing information was provided for Charlevoix or the surrounding area. Without that material, we cannot describe the local housing market, commute patterns, or community setting. No program offerings, course access, staffing, discipline, attendance, or Title I status data were available either. Civil rights data and any neighbor comparison fact-set were absent as well.
What the data does establish clearly is that Charlevoix Academy was a small charter school district that contracted with Saginaw Valley State University as its authorizer, experienced years of declining enrollment, and closed after the 2022-23 school year. A parent who had been considering this school would need to redirect to other public or charter options in the Charlevoix area. The closure leaves the neighboring districts as the available public school pathway for families who previously had this choice.
This is an entity with very little to report beyond the fact of its closure. The academic record, student demographics, programs, and community context are all either suppressed, missing, or simply not provided. A parent reading this should understand that the absence of performance data here reflects a school that wound down with too few students to produce reportable results, not a hidden strong or weak record. There is no active institution to investigate further.
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