The top reported proficiency rate is 17% in English language arts. The lowest is 6% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Chandler Park Academy
Chandler Park Academy is a single-district charter system in Wayne County, Michigan, serving students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade across three schools: an elementary building, a middle school, and a high school. The enrollment is sizable for a charter operation, with students distributed fairly evenly across the grade bands, though the upper elementary and middle grades account for a somewhat larger share than the earliest or final grades. The student body is almost entirely African American, with only a handful of students identified across other racial categories. Information on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education enrollment, and English learner status was not available in the data provided, so those portions of the picture remain blank here.
On Michigan's state assessments for the most recent reported year, proficiency rates across math, English language arts, science, and social studies were low in every tested grade. Math results were the weakest area. In several grades, the number of students scoring proficient was at or near zero, and even the strongest math grade fell well below what most districts in the county posted. English language arts results were somewhat higher, with the eighth grade showing the strongest performance in that subject, but rates still sat below the county median across the board. Science and social studies followed a similar pattern, with only a small fraction of tested students reaching proficiency.
Against the comparison set of Wayne County's districts, Chandler Park Academy's overall proficiency index lands in the bottom quartile. This places it among the lower-performing districts academically in a county that includes a wide range of outcomes. Chronic absenteeism, by contrast, came in better than the county midpoint, meaning a smaller share of students were chronically absent than in most peer districts. Per-pupil current spending sat in the middle range but toward the lower half of the county's districts. A graduation rate was not available in the comparison data, so there is no comparable figure to place against neighboring districts. A parent may want to look into graduation outcomes directly with the high school, since the data here does not provide one.
The district brief returned no recent changes clearing a lasting-impact threshold, so there is little to report on programmatic shifts, leadership transitions, or facility changes from the available research. No locale brief or community economic context was provided, which means the housing market, neighborhood character, and broader municipal setting are not described here. Similarly, no program offerings, course access details, staffing ratios, or discipline data were included in the payload, so questions about Advanced Placement availability, career pathways, extracurriculars, or school climate measures cannot be addressed from what is available. Civil rights data was also absent.
What the data does say clearly is that Chandler Park Academy is a predominantly African American charter district where chronic absenteeism is lower than in most Wayne County districts, but where academic proficiency as measured by the state remains low across subjects and grades. Spending per pupil is moderate for the area. The absence of graduation rate data, demographic detail on poverty and disability, and any program or staffing information leaves real gaps. Families considering this district would benefit from asking the schools directly about instructional supports, intervention programs, high school course offerings, and post-graduation outcomes, since none of that appears in the records reviewed here.
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