The top reported proficiency rate is 55% in Math. The lowest is 10% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Highview Elementary School
Highview Elementary School sits in Dearborn Heights, an inner-ring suburb about a dozen miles west of downtown Detroit. The school serves pre-kindergarten through fourth grade as part of Crestwood School District, one of five districts that divide the city. It is a regular public school on Richardson Street, and its enrollment makes it a mid-sized elementary for its grade band.
The student body is overwhelmingly white, with very small numbers of Black, Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Highview among the higher-poverty elementaries in the area. The school's community is Dearborn Heights, a bedroom community built mostly of single-family homes and commercial strips along arterial roads. There is no traditional walkable downtown. Daily life runs by car, with civic functions dispersed across the city rather than clustered in a center. The Dearborn Heights Justice Center and two public libraries serve as civic anchors, and the broader Metro Detroit economy, including nearby Dearborn and Ford Motor Company's headquarters, drives most local employment.
State testing at Highview comes from Michigan's M-STEP. In the most recent reported year, third and fourth graders showed mixed results. Math proficiency ran above half in both grades, with third grade stronger than fourth. English language arts followed a similar pattern, with third grade landing just below half and fourth grade clearing it. Taken together, Highview's overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places it in the top quartile relative to districts in Wayne County, a position that reflects a solid showing in a county with wide variation and many lower-performing schools. Science was last tested separately at this school years ago, and that older result was very low. A parent may want to look into what science instruction looks like now, since the gap in that data is wide and the single older figure does not reflect current performance.
No graduation rate applies here, since Highview does not serve high school grades. No chronic absenteeism figure was reported, and the dataset did not include staffing ratios, course access details, discipline data, attendance rates, or Title I status. Information on special populations, including students with individualized education programs and English learners, was not available. These gaps mean a parent looking at support services would need to ask the school directly.
The housing market around Highview is relatively affordable for the region. Typical home values in the school's ZIP code sit well below both the state and national benchmarks, and rents are modest. Price-to-income affordability is favorable compared with national norms, and estimated monthly mortgage costs run close to local rents. The market itself is cooling somewhat, with median listing prices drifting down year over year and demand indicators softening across Wayne County. Homes move in a moderate timeframe, neither flying off the market nor sitting for extended periods. The broader community is experiencing a modest population decline, consistent with patterns seen in many older inner-ring suburbs of Detroit. The housing stock is largely built out, and no major new developments surfaced in available sources.
Crestwood School District itself did not surface parent-relevant changes in the research period. We looked for referendums, curriculum shifts, or construction projects and found little, so we left it out rather than guess. A parent weighing Highview should know that the district context is thin in the public record right now, and direct questions to the district office may fill in what is missing.
What Highview appears to offer is a straightforward elementary pathway in an affordable, car-dependent suburban setting, with current reading and math results that outperform most of its county peers despite serving a high-need population. The science picture is unclear. The support and program data are absent from public sources. For a family already in or considering Dearborn Heights, the school's academic results in core tested subjects are a genuine positive, and the missing pieces are worth asking about before drawing a fuller conclusion.
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