The reported proficiency rate for English language arts is 22%.
Original Research by School Decision on Global Tech Academy
Global Tech Academy is a single-school district in Washtenaw County, Michigan, serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The enrollment is small for its grade band, with roughly two hundred students spread across those grades, so class sizes at each tested grade level tend to be modest. The student body is predominantly Black, with a substantial Hispanic presence and small shares of White, multiracial, and Asian students. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available, and information on English learners and students with individualized education programs was missing as well, so the picture of economic need and special populations here is incomplete. Because the district ends at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report, which is expected for this grade band rather than a gap in the data.
On Michigan's M-STEP and PSAT assessments from the most recent school year, proficiency results were low across nearly every subject and grade. In math, no tested grade had more than a small handful of proficient students, and most grades recorded none at all, placing the district in a reported proficiency range at the very bottom of the state scale for grades three through seven. Eighth-grade math, assessed through the PSAT, showed a similarly low pattern. English language arts was somewhat stronger, with a modest share of fifth graders reaching proficiency and roughly a third of eighth graders doing so on the PSAT, though most other grades remained in the lowest reported band. Science and social studies results followed the same pattern, with few or no proficient students in the tested grades. Among Washtenaw County's districts, the district's overall proficiency index sits in the bottom quartile, well below the county median.
One area where the district stands out positively is attendance. The chronic absenteeism rate is in the top quartile among the county's districts, meaning students are showing up to school at rates better than most of their peers across the county. That is a genuine strength, since consistent attendance is a foundation for any academic improvement effort. Per-pupil current spending sits in the upper range compared with neighboring districts, suggesting the district is investing resources at a level above the county median despite its small size.
We looked for the district's strategic priorities or recent parent-relevant changes and found little beyond a static school profile and fiscal data, so there is no documented program shift, leadership change, or initiative to describe here. No locale brief was available for the district's immediate community, and housing and economic context data was not provided, so we cannot characterize the surrounding housing market or neighborhood setting. Program offerings, course access, staffing details, discipline data, and Title I status were also absent from the available data.
What a parent can take from this is a school with a close-knit, small enrollment and a student body that is majority Black and Hispanic, strong daily attendance, and spending levels that suggest real resource investment. The academic results, though, are a soft spot that a parent may want to look into further with the school, particularly in math and science. The district appears to be in an early stage of whatever turnaround or instructional work its current investment might support, and the publicly available record does not yet describe that work in detail.
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