The top reported proficiency rate is 23% in English language arts. The lowest is 15% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on West Village Academy
West Village Academy is a single-school charter district serving kindergarten through eighth grade, located in Dearborn, Michigan, within Wayne County. It is a small enrollment setting, and its student body is predominantly Black, with small numbers of students from other racial and ethnic backgrounds. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available, and the same is true for special-education and English-learner counts, so a parent looking for a picture of the school's socioeconomic and support-service composition will need to ask the school directly.
On state assessments, the school's results are a mixed picture that leans weak. English language arts is the relative bright spot. Proficiency rises meaningfully as students move through the upper grades, and by eighth grade, roughly half of tested students reached proficiency on the PSAT-based reading and writing measure. That is a genuinely encouraging signal for a school of this size and type, and it suggests the upper-grade ELA instruction is producing results. The lower-grade ELA numbers are far more modest, with only a small fraction of third and fourth graders demonstrating proficiency.
Math is the softer area. Across every tested grade, math proficiency sits in a low range, with several grades showing no students reaching the proficient threshold. This pattern holds from third grade through eighth. A parent considering this school may want to look into how math instruction is structured, what interventions are in place, and how the school plans to address what is clearly a persistent gap across the grade band. Science and social studies results, tested only in fifth and eighth grades, also show low proficiency.
Among Wayne County's districts, West Village Academy's overall proficiency index lands below the midpoint. Chronic absenteeism is also above the county median, which is worth noting because attendance patterns directly affect how much instruction students receive. Per-pupil spending sits in the lower range compared with peer districts in the county, which may relate to the school's charter status and funding structure, though the data does not explain the cause.
Because West Village Academy does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and that gap is expected for a K-8 entity. No civil-rights data, course-access information, staffing figures, or program offerings were provided, so those dimensions of the school environment could not be assessed here. A parent would need to go to the school or its website for details on extracurriculars, specialized instruction, discipline practices, and teacher qualifications.
We looked for recent parent-relevant changes or district-level initiatives and found none meeting the threshold for inclusion. Publicly available sources confirm the school's basic identity and academic data but do not surface strategic plans, board actions, or program launches from the recent period.
No locale brief or housing-market data was available for this entity, so the community and economic context could not be rendered here. Dearborn is a large, diverse city in the Detroit metropolitan area, but without sourced specifics in the payload, anything further would be speculation, and we avoid that.
The clearest takeaway from the available evidence is that West Village Academy is a small, predominantly Black K-8 charter school where English language arts in the upper grades stands out as a relative strength, while math across all grades is a persistent concern. Attendance is a challenge relative to neighboring districts, and spending is modest. For a family evaluating this school, the most productive next step would be to visit, ask about math instruction and intervention, and probe the attendance and support structures that sit behind these numbers.
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