The top reported proficiency rate is 37% in Social studies. The lowest is 16% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Legacy Charter Academy
Legacy Charter Academy is a single-school K-8 charter district in Wayne County, in the Detroit area, managed by National Heritage Academies. It serves kindergarten through eighth grade with a student body that is overwhelmingly Black, with a small multiracial share and a handful of Hispanic students. The enrollment is moderate for a K-8 building, with relatively even distribution across grades. The data does not include free-or-reduced-price-lunch counts, special-education rates, or English-learner figures, so the economic and linguistic profile of the student population is not available from what was provided. No locale brief or community economic context was supplied, so details about housing, neighborhood character, or local growth patterns are missing here.
The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate or college-and-career-readiness measure to report. That gap reflects the grade band, not a missing result. Similarly, the comparison fact-set labels graduation as not applicable for this entity.
On Michigan's M-STEP and PSAT assessments, the clearest pattern across the 2024-25 results is a sharp decline in proficiency as students move from the early grades into the middle grades. In math, third and fourth graders perform at a moderately strong level, with roughly four in ten students proficient. By fifth grade that share drops, and in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades it falls to very low levels, with only a handful of students reaching proficiency in each of those grades. ELA follows a related but less severe arc. Third graders show moderate proficiency, and the share declines through fifth and sixth grades. Eighth grade ELA, assessed via PSAT, rebounds to a level comparable to the early grades, which suggests some recovery in reading and writing as students approach high school transition. Science and social studies are tested only in fifth and eighth grades. Fifth-grade science is very weak, and fifth-grade social studies shows essentially no students reaching proficiency. Eighth-grade results in both subjects are considerably stronger, with social studies in particular standing out as a relative bright spot.
When placed among Wayne County's districts, Legacy Charter Academy's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint, meaning the school outperforms a majority of county districts on the combined measure across tested subjects and grades. This is a meaningful signal given the county's large and varied set of districts. Per-pupil current spending falls in the middle range, in the lower half of the county's districts. Chronic absenteeism, however, is a concern. The rate is below the midpoint in a direction that is not favorable, meaning absenteeism runs higher than most county peers. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, since high chronic absenteeism can both reflect and intensify the kind of grade-level proficiency decline the assessment data shows.
The district brief search returned general profile information but did not identify any parent-relevant changes meeting a lasting-impact bar. No strategic priorities, program additions, governance changes, or facility updates were surfaced.
For a family weighing this school, the academic pathway offers solid early-grade foundations in math and reading, a rough stretch through the middle grades especially in math and science, and some evidence of late-grade recovery in ELA and social studies. The peer environment is a predominantly Black student community in a single K-8 building, which may appeal to families seeking that setting. The absenteeism level is a practical factor to ask about, as is what the school is doing to support the steep middle-grade slide in math. Because no housing, economic, or neighborhood data was provided, families will need to look elsewhere for context about the surrounding community.
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