The top reported proficiency rate is 54% in English language arts. The lowest is 38% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Warner Middle School
Warner Middle School sits in Farmington Hills, a large northwestern suburb of Detroit and the second-largest community in Oakland County. The city is a spread-out, car-oriented place of residential subdivisions and corporate office parks, with major employers anchored in automotive and financial services. publicly reported anchors include Bosch, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Nissan Technical Center, and Beaumont Hospital. Farmington Hills does not have its own traditional downtown; that lies in the neighboring city of Farmington, with which it shares a school district, library system, and district court. The school itself sits on Fourteen Mile Road, one of the area's main east-west arteries, in a setting of suburban commercial corridors and residential neighborhoods.
The school serves grades six through eight and falls within Farmington Public School District. Its enrollment is moderate for a middle school, with students fairly evenly distributed across the three grade levels. The student body is diverse in a way that reflects the broader community: roughly half white and over a third Black, with smaller Asian, Hispanic, and multiracial groups making up the rest. About three in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on English learners and students with individualized education programs was not available, so those population sizes remain unclear from what was provided.
On state assessments, Warner's results paint a mixed but generally solid picture. In English language arts, sixth and seventh graders land near the middle of the proficiency range, with close to half of seventh graders meeting or exceeding standards. Eighth grade ELA stands out as a clear strength: a strong majority of students demonstrated proficiency on the PSAT-based measure, a marked jump from the earlier grades. Math tells a different story. Sixth and seventh grade math proficiency sits in a similar moderate band to the earlier ELA results, but eighth grade math drops noticeably, with fewer than a third of students reaching proficiency. Science and social studies results for eighth graders both land in the middle range, with nearly half of students proficient in each.
Placed against districts in Oakland County, Warner's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint. That positioning is reasonable for a school in a district with Farmington's resources, though the eighth grade math gap is the kind of soft spot a parent may want to look into further with the school, particularly given how strong the eighth grade ELA result is in the same cohort. The contrast suggests that literacy instruction is landing well while math preparation for the high school transition may need attention.
No multi-year trend data was available, so it is hard to say whether these patterns are stable or shifting. Chronic absenteeism and graduation rate figures do not apply here in the usual way: graduation is a high school measure, and the absenteeism data was not reported for this school. Program offerings, discipline data, staffing ratios, and course access information were also not available in what was provided, which leaves a gap for families wanting to understand the day-to-day academic and extracurricular experience.
The housing market around Warner reflects a comfortable suburban community. Typical home values in the school's zip code run below the Oakland County median listing price but above the statewide benchmark, and values have been rising modestly. Homes spend a little over a month on the market on average, and the county market shows healthy listing activity with a slight cooling in prices recently. Rental costs are modest relative to local incomes. The broader economic picture is steady, with unemployment holding flat and mortgage rates in the mid-six range.
Farmington Public School District did not surface any recent parent-relevant changes such as bond referenda, school closures, curriculum overhauls, or budget shifts that clear a lasting-impact bar, so there is little to report on that front. The district operates eight elementary schools, three middle schools of which Warner is one, and two high schools plus a smaller alternative high school, with another high school in neighboring Farmington also serving parts of this community. A former high school, Harrison, closed and was repurposed as a community center called The Hawk.
For a family considering Warner, the school offers a diverse peer environment in a well-resourced suburban district, with particular strength in upper-grade literacy and generally above-midpoint performance for the county. The eighth grade math results are the main question worth asking about, and the absence of program and staffing detail means a visit or conversation with the school would help fill in what the numbers cannot.
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