Keys Grace Academy, Madison Heights MI

Original Research by School Decision on Keys Grace Academy

Keys Grace Academy is a public charter school in Madison Heights, Michigan, serving students from kindergarten through grade twelve on paper, though its enrollment is concentrated entirely in the elementary and middle grades. The school has no students currently enrolled in grades nine through twelve, so the high school grades exist in name only. This means there is no graduation rate to report, and that absence reflects the school's actual enrollment pattern rather than a missing data point.

The school sits in an inner-ring suburb of Detroit, about a dozen miles north of downtown. Madison Heights is an auto-oriented community where residential streets interweave with commercial corridors and industrial parks. The city has no traditional downtown; civic life clusters around the municipal complex on Thirteen Mile Road, and commercial activity spreads across shopping centers and arterial roads. Housing here is more affordable than the state and national benchmarks, with home values sitting below the Michigan median and rents at a moderate level. The community has seen steady population decline over recent decades, yet it retains a solid commercial and industrial tax base as part of Oakland County's Automation Alley tech corridor. Interstate access is a defining feature, with I-75 running along the western edge.

Enrollment at Keys Grace Academy is modest for a kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade charter. Nearly every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school among those serving a very high-poverty population. The student body is predominantly white, with a small share of Black students and trace representation from other groups. Data on special education and English learner populations was not available, so those dimensions of the student profile remain unknown.

On state assessments, proficiency results are low across every tested subject and grade. In math, the share of students meeting or exceeding proficiency standards sits in the single digits or near zero for most grade levels, with third grade being the relative high point. English language arts follows a similar pattern, though eighth grade stands out as the strongest result, with roughly a fifth of tested students reaching proficiency. Science and social studies results are also low. When measured against other districts in Oakland County, the school's overall proficiency index lands in the bottom quartile. This is a clear academic soft spot. A parent considering this school may want to look into how the school is responding to these results, what instructional supports are in place, and whether improvement efforts are underway.

No chronic absenteeism data was available, and no trend data from prior years was provided, so it is difficult to say whether these proficiency levels represent a persistent pattern or a recent shift. The school's charter was re-authorized for a multi-year term in partnership with Madison District Public Schools, which provides some operational stability for families weighing a longer-term commitment.

Keys Grace Academy offers a small-school, charter-school setting in an affordable suburb with strong highway access. The academic results as reported are weak, and families would want to ask direct questions about the school's improvement plans, classroom support, and what the day-to-day learning experience looks like before making a decision.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 314%

School 14% · District 14%

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 41 pts below county median

Grade 66%

School 6% · District 6%

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 35 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 39%

School 9% · District 9%

▼ 29 pts below state median · ▼ 40 pts below county median

Grade 45%

School 5% · District 5%

▼ 35 pts below state median · ▼ 49 pts below county median

Grade 55%

School 5% · District 5%

▼ 38 pts below state median · ▼ 51 pts below county median

Grade 68%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 35 pts below county median

Grade 713%

School 13% · District 13%

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 35 pts below county median

Grade 822%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 41 pts below state median · ▼ 54 pts below county median

Science

Grade 87%

School 7% · District 7%

▼ 31 pts below state median · ▼ 47 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 88%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 35 pts below state median · ▼ 49 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.