Genesee High School, Genesee MI - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Genesee High School

Genesee High School sits on North Genesee Road in Genesee Charter Township, a residential community north of Flint in Genesee County. The township is car-dependent suburban territory, with single-family neighborhoods and rural stretches, no traditional downtown, and civic life anchored by a township hall rather than a walkable commercial core. The broader county is threaded by interstate highways and holds a sizable regional park system, including Crossroads Village and the Flint River reservoirs, but the township itself reads as a quiet residential base within commuting distance of Flint and Burton. The area has seen a modest population decline over recent census cycles, and no major new housing developments or growth projects surfaced in public reporting.

The school serves grades seven through twelve with a total enrollment that is small for a secondary school spanning six grades. The student body is predominantly white, with a Hispanic minority and small shares of multiracial and Black students. A very large share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school among the higher-poverty campuses in its county. Data on special education and English learner populations was not available, so those profiles remain unknown here.

On state assessments, Genesee High School's results are mixed and lean weak in the middle grades. Math proficiency is low across grades six through eight, with only a small fraction of students reaching proficient or above in each tested grade. English language arts follows a similar pattern in grades six and seven, but grade eight tells a different story: more than half of eighth graders scored proficient on the PSAT-based ELA measure, a result that stands apart from the younger grades and suggests stronger reading performance as students approach high school. Science and social studies proficiency for grade eight landed in a middling range, with roughly a quarter to nearly a third of tested students clearing the proficient bar. No high school grade level results were reported in the available data, and no multi-year trend information was provided, so it is hard to say whether these middle-grade numbers reflect a stable pattern or a recent shift. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly what supports are in place for math through the middle grades.

Positioned against other districts in Genesee County, the school's overall proficiency index sits below the midpoint. This is a cohort of more than thirty districts, and Genesee falls on the lower side of that range, though not at the bottom. No graduation rate was available for comparison, and chronic absenteeism data was also missing, so the picture of student outcomes is limited to the state testing window in the middle grades.

The housing market around the school is affordable relative to both state and national benchmarks. Typical home values in the school's zip code run well below the state figure, and the county market has been heating up modestly, with rising listing prices and homes moving somewhat faster than a year ago. Mortgage costs remain low compared with rents in the area, and the price-to-income ratio suggests that ownership is within reach for many local households. This is a place where housing costs are unlikely to be the primary barrier to accessing the school.

The district brief returned little in the way of recent parent-relevant changes, so there is no clear record of new programs, leadership shifts, or facility investments to report. For a family weighing this school, the open questions are the ones the data does not answer: what the high school years look like academically, how the school supports students from a high-poverty community, and whether the strong eighth-grade ELA result carries forward into the upper grades. The middle-grade math results are the clearest soft spot in the available record, and they are worth asking about directly.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=90%Cohort of 42 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,027 schools plotted. 80 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 620%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 711%

School 11% · District 11%

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 815%

School 15% · District 15%

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 616%

School 16% · District 16%

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 713%

School 13% · District 13%

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 53%

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Science

Grade 829%

School 29% · District 29%

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 824%

School 24% · District 24%

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

This schoolGenesee School District, same grade

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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 7Lower-income9%Higher-income25%16 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income51%Higher-income60%9 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 7Lower-income7%Higher-income25%18 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income11%Higher-income27%16 pp gap