George Crockett Academy, Detroit MI

Original Research by School Decision on George Crockett Academy

George Crockett Academy sits on 14th Street in Detroit, a charter school serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. As a single-school charter district, it operates independently, and public sources turned up no recent district-level changes worth flagging. The school draws a nearly entirely Black student body, and every enrolled student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The enrollment is modest for a school spanning that many grades, with roughly thirty to forty students per grade in the tested grades.

On Michigan's M-STEP and PSAT assessments, the most recent results paint a mixed but mostly difficult picture. English language arts is the stronger subject. Proficiency rises noticeably in the upper elementary and middle grades, with fifth grade and eighth grade standing out as the brightest spots, where a meaningful share of tested students reached proficiency. Third and fourth grade ELA results are lower, and seventh grade sits in between. In mathematics, proficiency is consistently low across every tested grade, and in several grades the reported rate falls into the lowest range the state publishes. Science and social studies results, available only for fifth and eighth grade, are also low. When measured against districts in Wayne County, the school's overall proficiency sits below the midpoint. A parent weighing this school may want to ask directly what math instruction and intervention look like in the classroom, and how the school plans to build on the relative ELA strength it shows in the upper grades.

Some data a parent might look for is simply absent from what was available. The school does not report participation rates for state testing. Special population figures, including individualized education program counts and English learner counts, were not available. There is no graduation rate, which is expected because the school does not serve high school grades. Chronic absenteeism, discipline, course access, and staffing data were also not reported, so those pieces of the picture remain blank rather than negative.

The surrounding neighborhood context matters here. The school's zip code carries home values far below both the Michigan and national benchmarks, and those values have been declining year over year. Rents in the area are modest relative to broader regional patterns. This places the school in a community that has experienced sustained economic pressure, even as Detroit itself has shown recent signs of turnaround. Publicly reported citywide trends note that Detroit's population grew for two consecutive years through 2025, the first time since the 1950s the city led Michigan in population growth. Major development projects, including the Hudson's site downtown, the Gordie Howe International Bridge, and continued riverfront expansion, are reshaping parts of the city. Walkability and transit access vary sharply by neighborhood, with the downtown and Midtown cores more navigable than outer residential areas where many schools and families are located.

What the available information does not capture is what happens inside the building day to day. No program offerings were listed. No extracurriculars, no dual-credit or career pathways, no staffing ratios, no attendance figures. For a school where every student comes from economically disadvantaged households and where test results show real academic struggle, particularly in math, those gaps leave a parent without the full picture. The strongest reason to visit would be to ask how the school supports students below proficiency, what its approach to early-grade math looks like, and whether the upper-grade ELA momentum carries into a coherent middle school pathway.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 312%

School 12% · District 12%

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 57%

School 7% · District 7%

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 312%

School 12% · District 12%

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

Grade 413%

School 13% · District 13%

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 29%

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 621%

School 21% · District 21%

▼ 12 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 714%

School 14% · District 14%

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 846%

School 46% · District 46%

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Science

Grade 512%

School 12% · District 12%

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 14%

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 58%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 816%

School 16% · District 16%

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

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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.