Landmark Academy, Kimball MI - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Landmark Academy

Landmark Academy is a charter school serving kindergarten through twelfth grade in Kimball Township, St. Clair County, Michigan. It operates as a single-school charter district authorized by Saginaw Valley State University, and its campus sits on Lapeer Road in a township that is largely rural and residential. The school draws a substantial enrollment for a charter spanning all grades, and a very large share of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller Hispanic, multiracial, and Black populations.

The academic picture from state testing is the area where a parent will want to look most closely. Proficiency rates across math, English language arts, science, and social studies are available for grades three through eight, and they paint a challenging portrait. In math, the school starts with roughly a quarter of third graders reaching proficiency, but that share falls sharply through the middle grades, bottoming out in seventh grade before ticking up modestly in eighth. The pattern in English language arts is more uneven. Fourth grade shows a relative strength, and eighth grade stands out as a clear bright spot with nearly half of tested students reaching proficiency, but the intervening grades sit well below that level. Science and social studies results follow a similar pattern of generally low proficiency, with eighth-grade social studies showing a somewhat stronger result.

Placed against its county peers, Landmark Academy sits in the bottom quartile for overall proficiency among the districts in St. Clair County for which comparison data was available. The cohort median proficiency index sits well above where this school lands. This is a fact worth sitting with. A parent considering this school may want to ask the administration directly about what interventions and instructional supports are in place, particularly in the middle grades where the steepest gaps appear.

Several data points that would help a parent round out the picture are missing. The graduation rate was not available in the provided data. Chronic absenteeism figures were not reported. Individualized education program rates and English learner counts were also missing. No program offerings, course access details, or staffing information were provided. These gaps mean the academic story rests almost entirely on the state assessment results, which give only a partial view of what happens in the building day to day. The school does serve high school grades, so the absence of a graduation rate is a data gap rather than something explained by grade band, and a parent may want to request that figure directly.

The community context matters for families thinking about daily life here. Kimball Township has no incorporated downtown. Settlements like Sparlingville, Smiths Creek, Wadhams, and West Tappan cluster at rural road intersections separated by open land. The township is car-dependent, with Interstate 69 running through and providing regional connectivity. Wadhams, in the northeast corner, has seen newer residential growth tied to that highway access. Civic life centers on a loose cluster of township hall, fire hall, and library in the Sparlingville area rather than a traditional Main Street. The locale brief notes modest population growth over two decades, with no specific large-scale housing projects identified by name.

Housing in the area is affordable relative to both state and national benchmarks. The weighted typical home value for the school's ZIP code sits well below the Michigan state benchmark and considerably below the national figure. Year-over-year home value growth has been modest. Rental data was not available. For a family weighing relocation, the housing market here is comparatively accessible, though the rural setting means a car is essential for virtually all daily needs.

What Landmark Academy offers is a single continuous K-through-twelve charter pathway in a quiet, affordable, rural township. The trade-off, based on available data, is that state test results are low relative to county peers, with particular concern in middle-grade math. The school's eighth-grade ELA results suggest that some students do find a stronger footing by the end of middle school, and the through-line of a single building from kindergarten to senior year may appeal to families seeking continuity. But the missing graduation rate, absenteeism, and program data mean a parent would need to go directly to the school to fill in the fuller picture before making a decision.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

90-94%Cohort of 61 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,027 schools plotted. 80 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 323%

School 23% · District 23%

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 430%

School 30% · District 30%

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 510%

School 10% · District 10%

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 66%

School 6% · District 6%

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 75%

School 5% · District 5%

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 14%

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 325%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 437%

School 37% · District 37%

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 518%

School 18% · District 18%

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 31 pts below county median

Grade 614%

School 14% · District 14%

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 714%

School 14% · District 14%

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 45%

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Science

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 817%

School 17% · District 17%

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 512%

School 12% · District 12%

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 825%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

This schoolLandmark Academy, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 4Lower-income36%Higher-income42%6 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income8%Higher-income29%21 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income42%Higher-income50%8 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income29%Higher-income33%4 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income12%Higher-income18%7 pp gap