The top reported proficiency rate is 47% in Social studies. The lowest is 25% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on New Paradigm College Prep
New Paradigm College Prep is a single-school district in Wayne County, Michigan, listed as serving prekindergarten through twelfth grade. Its current enrollment tells a more specific story: students are present from kindergarten through eighth grade, but no students are enrolled in grades nine through twelve. So while the district carries a PK through 12 designation, it functions as an elementary and middle school today. A parent looking at this place for a high schooler would find, as the data shows, no active upper-grade enrollment. Why the high school grades sit empty is not explained in the available data, and a parent may want to ask the school directly about its plans for those grades.
The student body is small for a district spanning this many grade levels. It is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial Black enrollment and a single white student. No other racial or ethnic groups are represented in the current counts. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not reported, so the economic profile of the families served is not visible here. English-learner and special-education rates were also missing, which leaves a gap in understanding what support services the school relies on.
On state assessments, the most recent results paint a mixed and grade-dependent picture. Math starts strong in the early elementary years. Third and fourth graders show proficiency rates above the midpoint among Wayne County's districts, and these are the district's best results. By fifth grade, math proficiency drops sharply, and it stays low through seventh and eighth grade, where the numbers fall to the bottom of the range the state reports. ELA follows a similar but lower pattern, with weak proficiency across every tested grade and no grade reaching what would be considered a middling level. Eighth-grade ELA, assessed through the PSAT, is particularly low.
Science and social studies diverge from that trend. Fifth-grade science is low, but eighth-grade science reaches a middling level. Social studies is the district's strongest subject overall, with fifth-grade proficiency well above the midpoint among Wayne County's districts and eighth grade also in a healthier range. The social studies cut scores changed this year, which limits year-over-year comparison, but the current results stand out as the area where the most students are meeting state expectations.
Taken together, the district's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint among Wayne County's districts, driven largely by the early-grade math and social-studies results. The chronic absenteeism rate is also above the midpoint, which is a soft spot a parent may want to look into further with the school. Per-pupil current spending sits in the middle range, upper half of the county's districts, suggesting the school is resourced at a typical level for the area.
No graduation rate is available, which is consistent with the absence of enrolled high school students rather than a sign of poor outcomes. The district brief searched for recent parent-relevant changes such as policy, curriculum, or facility shifts and found little of lasting impact, so there is nothing new to report on that front. Locale and community context were not available in the data provided.
For a parent, the read is this: New Paradigm College Prep is a small, predominantly Hispanic and Black school with real strength in the early elementary grades, especially in math, and a social studies program that outperforms expectations across both tested grades. The upper middle grades are where proficiency declines most visibly, particularly in math and ELA. Families considering this school for a younger child may find a solid early-grade foundation. Families looking at it for a middle schooler should ask how the school supports academic growth in those transition years, and anyone expecting a functioning high school will need to confirm directly with the school what those grades currently offer.
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