The top reported proficiency rate is 65% in Science. The lowest is 45% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Noor International Academy
Noor International Academy is a public charter school in Sterling Heights, Michigan, serving students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. It sits on Dequindre Road in a large, primarily residential suburb of Detroit, a community that grew from farmland into a bedroom community for the auto industry during the middle of the last century and remains firmly suburban in character today.
The school is small for its grade band, with roughly two hundred students spread across kindergarten and grades one through six, plus a pre-kindergarten offering. Its student body is distinctive in a county where many schools lean heavily one way or another demographically. Here, Asian and White students each make up close to half the enrollment, with a tiny handful of students from other backgrounds. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school does not report English-learner or special-education counts in the data available, so a parent whose child needs those services would want to ask directly about what is offered.
On state assessments, Noor International shows real strength in English language arts. Third graders tested well above where many Michigan schools land, and fifth graders were even stronger, with a clear majority reaching proficiency. Fourth grade was more mixed but still solid. In math, the picture is more uneven. Third grade was strong, but fourth grade dropped off considerably, with fewer than a third of tested students proficient. Fifth grade recovered to a middling level. Science and social studies, tested only in fifth grade, both came in at or above the midpoint, with science a particular bright spot. No sixth grade results were reported for either math or ELA; the tested count was zero, which often reflects how a small school's enrollment and testing window interact, but the data does not give a specific reason.
Across all tested subjects and grades, the school's overall proficiency places it in the top quartile among districts in Macomb County, well above the county median and near the top of the range. That is a meaningful signal for a small charter elementary. At the same time, the fourth grade math result is a soft spot worth asking about. A parent may want to look into what happens between third and fourth grade instructionally and whether the school has identified the dip and responded.
Because Noor serves only through sixth grade, there is no graduation rate, no AP or career-pathway data, and no college-credit coursework to report. Those measures belong to high schools and simply do not apply here. Chronic absenteeism, discipline, staffing ratios, and course-access details were also not available in the data provided.
Sterling Heights itself is a car-dependent city without a traditional downtown. Civic life is spread across dispersed campuses, and retail, dining, and big-box stores line the major arterial roads like Hall Road, Van Dyke Avenue, and Mound Road. The Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant is one of the city's largest employers, and Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in neighboring Clinton Township is a major healthcare employer. The city is largely built out, with a stable to slightly declining population and development focused on redevelopment and infill rather than greenfield expansion. Housing values in the school's zip code sit above the Michigan state benchmark but below the national one, and rents run moderate for the region. SMART bus service runs along major roads, though it is limited.
The district brief turned up little in the way of recent parent-relevant changes such as curriculum overhauls, property-tax shifts, or referendums, so there is nothing to report on that front.
What Noor offers is a small, culturally balanced elementary charter with strong reading results, solid science performance, and a county standing near the top on tested proficiency. The math dip in the middle grades is the main academic question a parent would want to press on. For families drawn to a smaller setting with this kind of demographic mix in a mature, accessible suburb, it is worth a closer look.
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