Michigan Mathematics and Science Academy Dequindre, Warren MI

Original Research by School Decision on Michigan Mathematics and Science Academy Dequindre

Michigan Mathematics and Science Academy Dequindre is a public charter school on Dequindre Road in Warren, serving students from kindergarten through twelfth grade on a single campus. The enrollment is moderate for a full K-through-12 charter, with roughly even distribution across most grades, though the senior class is smaller than the lower grades. The student body is predominantly Black, with small shares of Asian, White, Hispanic, and multiracial students. Nearly every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school among the highest-poverty campuses in its area. Data on special-education enrollment and English-learner status was not available, so those pieces of the student-support picture are gaps a parent may want to ask the school about directly.

The school sits in Warren, a large inner-ring suburb of Detroit and the largest city in Macomb County. Warren is auto-oriented and sprawling, organized around wide north-south arterials like Dequindre Road, Van Dyke Avenue, and Mound Road, with mile roads running east-west. There is no traditional walkable downtown, and the school's location on a major arterial means arriving by car is the practical default. Warren's economy is anchored by automotive engineering and defense employers, including the General Motors Technical Center, the U.S. Army Detroit Arsenal, and Stellantis facilities, all of which are publicly reported as major local employers. The city grew rapidly during the postwar decades and has been gradually losing population since, with an aging housing stock and limited new construction. Housing in the school's ZIP code is below both the Michigan and national benchmarks, with rents that have risen sharply over the past year. This is an affordable corner of metro Detroit relative to the state and country.

Academically, state testing results from the most recent year show the school struggling in mathematics. Proficiency rates across third through eighth grade are low in every grade, with several grades in the single digits and one grade showing no proficient students. ELA results are more uneven. The eighth-grade ELA proficiency rate stands out as the school's strongest result by a wide margin, while the middle grades generally land in the teens. Science and social studies, tested only in grades five and eight, fall in the low-to-mid range. When the school's overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades is compared with the set of districts in Macomb County, Michigan Mathematics and Science Academy Dequindre sits in the bottom quartile. A parent evaluating the academic pathway here should understand that the state test results, taken at face value, indicate students are performing well below the county median, and the school's math results in particular are weak across the board. This is the kind of gap a parent may want to look into further with the school, asking how curriculum, intervention, and staffing are structured to move those numbers.

No graduation rate was reported for this school. The school does serve high school grades, so graduation data should exist in principle, but it was not present in the available dataset. Chronic absenteeism data was also missing. Program offerings such as AP courses, dual-credit pathways, career and technical education, and extracurriculars were not reported in the available data, so we cannot characterize the academic pathway beyond the state-tested subjects. Staffing ratios, class sizes, and teacher qualifications were likewise absent. The district-level brief returned no parent-relevant recent changes or strategic priorities that clear a lasting-impact bar, so there is little to report on recent initiatives.

What the data does describe clearly is a full K-through-12 charter school serving an almost entirely low-income, predominantly Black student population in an aging, working-class Detroit suburb, with state test results that trail most of Macomb County and a math profile that is particularly thin. For a family drawn to a charter model with a continuous K-through-12 pathway and a homogeneous peer environment, the question to pursue with the school is what happens in the classroom on a given day, because the testing numbers alone do not tell a strong story.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

80-89%Cohort of 38 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 326%

School 26% · District 26% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Grade 47%

School 7% · District 8% · ▼ 1 pts below district

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

Grade 512%

School 12% · District 10% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

Grade 68%

School 8% · District 8%

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

Grade 87%

School 7% · District 7%

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

English language arts

Grade 319%

School 19% · District 14% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 411%

School 11% · District 19% · ▼ 8 pts below district

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

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 36% · ▼ 10 pts below district

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

Grade 619%

School 19% · District 19%

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

Grade 717%

School 17% · District 17%

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

Grade 842%

School 42% · District 42%

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

Science

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 33% · ▼ 9 pts below district

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

Grade 823%

School 23% · District 23%

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

Social studies

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 30% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 830%

School 30% · District 30%

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

This schoolMichigan Mathematics and Science 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.