The top reported proficiency rate is 42% in English language arts. The lowest is 25% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Windemere Park Charter Academy
Windemere Park Charter Academy is a single-site charter school in Ingham County, Michigan, serving kindergarten through eighth grade. It operates as its own district under state reporting, with one school on the rolls. The enrollment is moderate for a K-8 charter, with fairly even distribution across grade levels. The student body is diverse: the largest groups are Black and Hispanic students, followed by a sizable multiracial population, with smaller numbers of white, Asian, and American Indian students. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not reported, and the same gap applies to special-education and English-learner counts, so the socioeconomic and support-service picture is incomplete from what was available.
State assessment results from the 2024-25 school year, drawn from Michigan's M-STEP and PSAT tests, show two distinct patterns. In English language arts, proficiency holds fairly steady from third through sixth grade at a moderate level, with a dip in seventh grade and a rebound in eighth. Math tells a harder story. Third and fourth graders perform at a moderate level, but proficiency drops sharply beginning in fifth grade and continues to slide through eighth, where the share of students meeting proficiency is quite low. Science results, tested only in fifth and eighth grades, land at a moderate level. Social studies, also tested only in those two grades, shows lower proficiency, particularly in fifth grade. Taken together, the school's English language arts program appears to sustain reasonably through the middle grades, while math instruction faces a steeper challenge as students advance, especially in the transition to the PSAT in eighth grade. A parent weighing this school for a middle-grade child may want to ask how the school supports math acceleration or remediation in the upper elementary and middle school years.
Measured against Ingham County's districts, Windemere Park's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint, meaning it performs in the upper portion of the county's range when all tested subjects and grades are averaged. This is a reasonable standing given the size and composition of the county's district cohort. The school does not have a graduation rate, which is expected because it serves only through eighth grade.
One figure stands out as a soft spot. The chronic absenteeism rate places the school in the bottom quartile among Ingham County districts, meaning its absenteeism is among the highest in the county. This is worth a direct conversation with school leadership, because absenteeism at that level can compound the academic challenges already visible in the upper-grade math results. The school's per-pupil current spending is in the lower range relative to county peers, which may be relevant context for understanding what resources are available for intervention and support.
No locale brief was provided for this entity, so the surrounding community and housing market cannot be characterized here. The district brief search found no recent curriculum changes, referendums, property tax measures, or other parent-relevant developments on the public record within the period reviewed, so there is nothing new to report on that front. Program offerings, civil-rights data, staffing details, and discipline information were not available in the materials provided.
What the evidence supports is a characterization of a diverse, moderately sized K-8 charter with steady English language arts outcomes through most grades, a clear decline in math proficiency as students move toward eighth grade, a chronic absenteeism problem that ranks among the county's worst, and spending below the county midpoint. For a family drawn to the school's demographic mix and charter format, the English language arts results offer some reassurance, while the math trajectory and attendance figures are areas to probe directly before enrolling, particularly for a child entering fifth grade or above.
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