The reported proficiency rate for Social studies is 31%.
Original Research by School Decision on Oakland County Academy of Media & Technology
Oakland County Academy of Media & Technology was a small Michigan district whose sole school closed permanently in 2023. Public reporting from The Oakland Press describes the school auctioning off equipment and furniture, listing its property for sale, and shutting its doors for good. Public School Review also identifies the school as closed that same year. Because the educational option no longer exists, the most useful thing a parent or resident can take from this record is a picture of what the school was like in its final year of operation.
The school was very small. State assessment data from the 2022-23 school year shows tested groups of roughly a dozen to a dozen and a half students per grade across grades three through eight. At that scale, a single student's results shift the picture considerably, and the state reported most proficiency figures as ranges rather than precise point estimates. In math, every grade level showed zero students reaching proficiency, with the reported range falling into the lowest bracket for grades four and seven and a slightly wider bracket for the remaining grades. English language arts followed the same pattern: no proficient students recorded in any tested grade, with ranges sitting in the lowest or near-lowest bands. Science results for grades five and eight were similarly reported in a low range with no proficient students.
The one exception was eighth-grade social studies, where a portion of the tested group reached proficiency. Average scale scores were reported across all tested subjects and grades, giving some sense of where students stood, but the overall academic picture from the final year is one of substantial difficulty across core subjects.
No enrollment totals, demographic breakdowns, free-or-reduced-price-lunch figures, English-learner counts, or special-education data were available in the record provided. Housing values, rents, and community context for the surrounding area were also absent. Without these, there is no way to characterize the student population, the neighborhood setting, or the housing market a family would have been entering. The record also lacks information on programs, staffing, discipline, attendance, and course access, so the academic data is nearly the whole of what can be said.
The closure itself eliminates the central question most parents would bring to a profile like this. There is no current pathway to evaluate, no peer environment to weigh, no enrollment decision to make. What remains is a record of a school that served a small number of students in its final year, struggled to move students to proficiency in tested subjects, and then ceased operating. A parent who had been considering this option would need to look elsewhere, and the surrounding Oakland County area offers other public and charter districts to explore.
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