The top reported proficiency rate is 38% in English language arts. The lowest is 9% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Clinton Valley Elementary School
Clinton Valley Elementary School sits on Mulberry Street in Mount Clemens, the county seat of Macomb County. It is a regular public school serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, part of the Chippewa Valley Schools district. The enrollment is moderate for an elementary building, with each grade level holding roughly fifty students. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which points to a community where economic need is common. The student body is roughly half white and about a third Black, with a meaningful share identified as two or more races and small Hispanic and Asian populations.
On state testing, the most recent M-STEP results show a clear pattern. English language arts is the relative bright spot. Third grade proficiency sits near the higher end of what the school posts, and fourth and fifth grade ELA results, while lower, still outpace the school's math scores. Math proficiency declines across the grade levels tested, with fifth grade posting the weakest result. Science proficiency in fifth grade lands in the same lower range as math, and social studies is the softest area by a wide margin. When the school's overall proficiency is placed against districts in Macomb County, Clinton Valley sits below the midpoint. A parent weighing this school may want to look into how the building supports math instruction across the upper elementary grades and what interventions are in place for students performing below grade level.
Some data a parent might expect is simply absent. The school does not report participation rates for state testing, and information on students with individualized education programs or English learners was not available in the data we received. Because Clinton Valley is an elementary school, there is no graduation rate to report, and chronic absenteeism figures were not provided.
The surrounding community shapes the school context. Mount Clemens has a compact, walkable downtown centered on Macomb Street, with coffee shops, restaurants, and civic buildings clustered near the Clinton River riverfront. The city hosts summer concerts, art fairs, and festivals that bring street life to the core. Residential streets around downtown hold a mix of nineteenth-century mansions, postwar bungalows, and brick ranches. Macomb County government is the dominant employer, with Selfridge Air National Guard Base nearby and light manufacturing scattered through the city. The public library sits opposite the high school, and the Anton Art Center occupies a former Carnegie library downtown.
The housing market here is more affordable than much of the region. Typical home values in the school's zip code sit well below the state benchmark, and rents are similarly modest relative to broader county patterns. County-wide, listing inventory has been rising while demand has softened somewhat, and homes are taking a bit longer to sell than a year ago. For families, this means buying into the Clinton Valley attendance zone is relatively accessible compared with many Macomb County communities, though the city itself faces fiscal pressures. A sizable share of properties are tax-exempt, and the city has wrestled with budget deficits even as it has secured grant funding for roadwork and wastewater improvements.
At the district level, Chippewa Valley Schools is in the middle of a bond-funded improvement cycle. Voters approved a bond in 2023 that funds district-wide technology and security upgrades, athletic facility renovations at both comprehensive high schools, and bus replacements, all structured to avoid raising the current debt levy rate. Work began in 2024 and continues through 2026. While these projects are concentrated at the secondary level, the technology and security upgrades flow across buildings, and a family at Clinton Valley would see some of that investment in the years ahead.
What Clinton Valley offers is a smallish, economically diverse elementary school in an affordable, historic county-seat community with genuine downtown character. The academic results are below the county midpoint, strongest in early literacy and weakest in math and social studies. Families drawn to Mount Clemens for its walkability, riverfront, and housing affordability should pair that with a close look at how the school is working to strengthen instruction in the upper elementary grades.
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