The top reported proficiency rate is 30% in English language arts. The lowest is 18% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Prevail Academy
Prevail Academy is a single-school charter district in Mount Clemens, Michigan, serving students from kindergarten through eighth grade. It operates as its own district under state authorization, which is a common structure for charter schools in Michigan. The enrollment is moderate for a K-8 building, and the student body is predominantly Black, with smaller groups identifying as two or more races, Hispanic, and White. We looked for free-or-reduced-price lunch data, special education counts, and English learner figures, but those fields were not reported, so they cannot be characterized here.
On state assessments, the most recent M-STEP and PSAT results paint a mixed picture across subjects and grade levels. English language arts is the relative bright spot. Proficiency in ELA climbs as students move through the upper grades, with eighth grade showing nearly half of tested students meeting or exceeding proficiency on the PSAT. Middle-grade ELA performance in sixth and seventh grade is also in a reasonable range. Math tells a different story. Proficiency rates in math are generally low across all tested grades, with the strongest showing in fourth grade and the weakest in fifth and seventh. Science and social studies results fall in a similar lower band, with fifth-grade science and social studies among the lowest reported figures. A parent evaluating academic fit may want to ask the school directly about its math instruction and intervention strategies, particularly in the elementary and early middle grades.
Against the comparison set among Macomb County's districts, Prevail Academy's overall proficiency index sits below the midpoint. Its chronic absenteeism rate also lands below the midpoint, meaning a higher share of students are chronically absent than at the typical county district. Per-pupil current spending is in the lower range compared with neighboring districts. These three data points together suggest a school working with fewer resources than most of its county peers while facing an attendance challenge that can compound academic difficulty.
Because Prevail Academy does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report. That gap reflects the grade band, not a missing or weak result. Similarly, participation rate data was not available for any tested grade or subject, so it is not possible to say how completely the enrolled population was assessed. The state did not provide trend data that would allow year-over-year change comparisons, so we left that out rather than guess.
We searched for recent parent-relevant changes at the district level, such as curriculum shifts, facility investments, or governance updates. The search returned directory and enrollment information but no evidence of lasting programmatic or policy changes in the recent period, so there is nothing new to report on that front. No locale brief or community economic context was provided for Mount Clemens, so the housing market and neighborhood setting cannot be described here.
What the available evidence does show is a small K-8 charter option with a strong ELA trajectory in the upper grades, serious math challenges across the grade span, attendance and resource constraints relative to its county peers, and a student demographic profile that centers Black families and multiracial families. Families considering Prevail Academy would benefit from visiting the school, asking about math supports and attendance interventions, and understanding how the ELA gains in later grades are achieved.
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