The top reported proficiency rate is 26% in Math. The lowest is 7% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Redford Service Learning Academy Campus
Redford Service Learning Academy Campus is a charter school on Grand River Avenue in Redford Township, an inner-ring suburb of Detroit. It serves pre-kindergarten through eighth grade and operates under the Detroit Service Learning Academy, a charter district whose publicly available information covers enrollment and fiscal basics but does not document recent parent-relevant changes. The school sits in a community that is predominantly residential, car-dependent, and organized around mile roads and arterial corridors rather than a walkable downtown. Civic life in Redford centers on the town hall complex on West Six Mile Road, the township district library, and the Redford Marquee, an open-air market and amphitheater carved from the old library building. The township has undergone demographic change over the past two decades, shifting from a majority white population to a racially diverse community with a large African American share, and public school students here are served by multiple traditional districts plus charter options like this one.
The school's enrollment is modest for its grade band, and its student body is nearly entirely African American. Virtually every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school among the highest-poverty settings in the area. The data does not include IEP counts, English learner figures, or staffing and attendance information, so those dimensions of student support cannot be characterized here. No discipline or course-access data was available either. A parent may want to ask the school directly about special education services, English learner support, and extracurricular or enrichment programming, since none of that appears in the available records.
On state assessments for the most recent school year, the results are weak across most tested grades and subjects. In math, third grade showed some proficiency but still at a low level, and grades four through eight fell into the lowest reporting range, with few or no students reaching proficiency in several grades. English language arts followed a similar pattern, with the notable exception of eighth grade, where a meaningful share of students demonstrated proficiency on the PSAT. Science and social studies results were also in the lowest reporting ranges for the grades tested. The school's overall proficiency index sits below the midpoint among Wayne County districts, which is the comparison set used here. There is no multi-year trend data available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, stable, or declining over time.
Because the school does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report. The school's grade span explains that gap rather than any performance issue. Participation rate data was missing across all tested grades and subjects, which limits what can be read from the results, though the tested counts were reported.
For families thinking about housing, the area around the school is relatively affordable compared with state and national benchmarks. Home values in the school's zip code are well below the Michigan statewide figure and roughly half the national figure, and rents are moderate. Recent trends show home values roughly flat to slightly declining year over year, while rents have risen modestly. The broader economic backdrop includes a thirty-year mortgage rate in the mid-six range and a national unemployment rate holding steady. Redford Township's housing stock is largely postwar single-family homes, with commercial strip development along the major roads. There is no traditional walkable downtown, and driving is the primary mode of getting around, though the township is within the SMART bus service area.
This is a small charter school serving a high-poverty, almost entirely African American student population in an affordable inner-ring suburb. Its state assessment results are low across most grades and subjects, with one bright spot in eighth-grade English. Families considering this school would benefit from asking directly about academic support structures, intervention programs, and what the school's service-learning model looks like in practice, since the available data does not fill in those details.
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