The top reported proficiency rate is 39% in English language arts. The lowest is 25% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Taylor Exemplar Academy
Taylor Exemplar Academy operates as a single-school charter district in Taylor, Michigan, serving kindergarten through eighth grade. It sits in Wayne County, and the comparison set used here is among Wayne County's districts. The school draws a moderate enrollment for a K-through-8 building, with relatively even distribution across grade levels.
The student body is predominantly Black, with white students forming the next largest group, followed by smaller populations of multiracial, Hispanic, and Asian students. Several demographic and socioeconomic measures that parents often look to were not available in the data we received, including free-or-reduced-price lunch counts, individualized education program rates, and English learner figures. Their absence means we cannot characterize the economic need or special-population composition from the provided data, and a family may want to ask the school directly for that picture.
On state assessments, Taylor Exemplar Academy shows a clear pattern: English language arts is the stronger subject area, and it improves as students move into the upper grades. By seventh grade, nearly half of tested students reach proficiency, and by eighth grade, more than half do. The lower elementary grades in ELA hover around a third proficient. This upward trajectory in the later grades is a genuine bright spot, suggesting that the school's literacy instruction may be building momentum over time.
Math results are more moderate and less consistent across grades. Proficiency tends to sit around a third of tested students in most grades, with some grades dipping lower. There is no clear upward trend in math as there is in ELA, and the middle school math results remain in the same modest range. A parent whose child tends to need stronger math support may want to look into this further with the school, particularly for the grades where results dip.
Science and social studies are the softer areas. Fifth-grade science and social studies proficiency is low, and while eighth-grade results in both subjects are stronger, the overall picture in these content areas suggests they are not the school's center of gravity. The state did flag a cut-score change in social studies, so cross-year comparisons in that subject carry an asterisk, but the current-year results stand on their own.
Placed among Wayne County's districts, Taylor Exemplar Academy's overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades sits above the midpoint. That positioning reflects the strength of the ELA results pulling the aggregate up, even as math and science remain more modest. Chronic absenteeism, where lower is better, also places the school above the midpoint relative to county peers, meaning attendance is on the better side of the county distribution. Per-pupil current spending falls in the lower range among Wayne County districts, which families may want to consider when thinking about resources available for programming, support staff, and extracurriculars.
Because the school does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report. That is expected for a K-through-8 entity and does not reflect a gap in performance. We also looked for recent parent-relevant changes or strategic initiatives from the district and found nothing meeting a lasting-impact bar in publicly reported material, so we left that out rather than guess. No locale brief or community economic context was available, and no program offerings, course access, staffing, discipline, or civil-rights data were provided, so those dimensions of school life cannot be characterized here.
What the data does show is a K-through-8 charter school where literacy instruction appears to gain traction in the upper grades, math is steady but unremarkable, science and social studies lag, and the student body is predominantly Black in a Wayne County setting where the school's overall academic results stand above the county midpoint. Families drawn to a smaller, single-building K-through-8 environment with a clear ELA trajectory may find it worth a closer look, particularly if they supplement their questions with the socioeconomic and program information the data did not provide.
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