The top reported proficiency rate is 67% in English language arts. The lowest is 36% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Davison Middle School
Davison Middle School sits in the heart of Davison, a small Genesee County city that functions as a suburb of Flint. The school serves seventh and eighth graders only, making it a short but pivotal two-year bridge between elementary and high school within the Davison Community Schools district. The enrollment is sizable for a two-grade building, and the student body is predominantly white, with small Hispanic, multiracial, and Black populations. Roughly half the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which gives the school a genuinely mixed-income profile rather than a skew toward either end.
Academically, the most recent state assessment results tell a story of strong reading performance and softer math outcomes. In English language arts, seventh graders posted a proficiency rate well above half, and eighth graders did even better, with a striking majority scoring proficient on the PSAT. Those ELA numbers are genuinely strong for a middle school serving a mixed-income community. Science and social studies results for eighth graders landed in a solid middle range, with social studies doing somewhat better. Math is the clear soft spot. Seventh grade math proficiency sat below half, and eighth grade math was lower still, with under a third of test-takers reaching proficiency. A parent whose child tends to struggle in math may want to look into how the school supports that subject specifically, whether through intervention blocks, tutoring, or differentiated grouping.
When placed against other districts in Genesee County, Davison Middle School's overall proficiency index lands in the top quartile. The county's median proficiency index is far below Davison's, and the school sits near the top of the range among the roughly three dozen districts for which data was available. That positioning reflects the strength of the ELA and social studies scores pulling the composite up, even as math drags it down. No graduation rate applies here, since the building stops at eighth grade. Chronic absenteeism data was not available, and the absence of that figure makes it harder to gauge day-to-day engagement. The data also did not include IEP or English learner counts, discipline records, course access details, or staffing ratios, so a full picture of student support services is not possible from what was provided.
The community context matters for any family considering this area. Davison is a compact residential and commercial city, publicly nicknamed the City of Flags. It has retail activity and food-service employment, and many residents commute elsewhere for work. The population has been declining gradually over recent census cycles, which is typical of many Flint-area suburbs. No specific new housing developments or growth initiatives surfaced in available research, and no major employers were named. The housing market in the surrounding ZIP code is moderately priced, with typical home values sitting below the state benchmark and well below the national one. Rents are modest, and the price-to-income ratio suggests the area remains relatively affordable for working families. Homes in the broader county market tend to sell within a reasonable window, and recent listing activity has been steady without signaling a frenzied market.
The district brief turned up no parent-relevant changes in the last year or so, so there is nothing to report on recent program launches, closures, or structural shifts. Program offerings for the middle school itself were not provided, so a family would need to ask the school directly about electives, clubs, sports, and advanced or intervention coursework.
What the available data suggests is a mid-sized, conventional public middle school with a real strength in reading and the humanities, a math result that warrants attention, and a community that is affordable and established if not growing. For a family whose child reads well and needs a solid peer environment, this could be a comfortable fit. For a family concerned about math preparation heading into high school, it would be worth probing what the school is doing to close that gap.
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