The reported proficiency rate for English language arts is 30%.
Original Research by School Decision on Forest Academy
Forest Academy was a single-school charter district in Michigan. The sole school it operated, also called Forest Academy, closed in 2023, so the district no longer runs any educational program. For any family looking at this entry, that closure is the central fact: the option described here is no longer available, and a household considering the area would need to look at neighboring schools or districts instead.
Publicly reported information indicates Forest Academy served students in kindergarten through eighth grade and was a very small school. Its test-score performance was described as ranking in the bottom portion of Michigan schools before it closed. The state assessment record from the most recent available year is extremely thin. Only third grade had any students recorded as tested in either math or English language arts. In math, no tested third graders reached the proficient level. In English language arts, a small fraction of the tested third graders were proficient. Every other grade level for which the state collects results, grades four through six, showed no students tested at all, and the state suppressed those results. Science and social studies results, which Michigan collects at grade five, were also suppressed for the same reason. Participation rates were not available for any grade or subject.
The scale of testing here is so small that a parent should read these results with caution. When only a handful of students sit for an assessment, a single student's performance can shift the picture sharply, and the absence of tested students in most grades means the state data cannot offer a meaningful portrait of academic outcomes across the school. This is a common pattern for very small schools, and the suppressed results here reflect that reality rather than signaling something separate about academic quality. Still, the one grade with any math results showed no students reaching proficiency, and a parent may want to look into this further if exploring archived records or asking the authorizing entity about what happened academically before the closure.
Because the school served only elementary and middle grades, there is no graduation rate, no high school course access data, and no college or career readiness information to report. The data we reviewed did not include enrollment counts, demographic breakdowns, free or reduced-price lunch figures, special education or English learner populations, staffing details, discipline data, or any locale or community context. Program offerings were not provided. We looked for the district's strategic priorities and any narrative about why the school closed but found little beyond the fact of the closure itself, so we left the rest out rather than guess.
What can be said is that Forest Academy was a very small charter school in Michigan that operated through eighth grade and is no longer operating. The academic data that exists is minimal and points to weak performance in the one grade where any results were recorded, but the tiny testing population makes it hard to draw broad conclusions. Families who see this district listed should know the school has closed and direct their attention to other educational options in the surrounding area.
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