Ida Middle School, Ida MI - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Ida Middle School

Ida MiddleSchool sits in a rural unincorporated community in central Monroe County, a place that grew around a stagecoach stopover on the old Monroe-to-Adrian route and has stayed small and agricultural. The school serves grades five through eight and is part of Ida Public School District, which runs its elementary, middle, and high school buildings on a single campus just east of Lewis Avenue. That compact arrangement places the school within easy walking distance of the township municipal office, the branch library, and St. Joseph Church, giving the campus a central role in community life rather than sitting apart from it.

The student body is modest in size for a four-grade middle school, and the enrollment is distributed fairly evenly across the four grades. The school draws from a community that is overwhelmingly white, with a small Hispanic presence and only a handful of students from other racial or ethnic backgrounds. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch is low compared with many Michigan schools, which reflects the working rural and residential character of the surrounding area rather than concentrated wealth. Data on English learners and special education populations was not available, so those dimensions of the student body are not described here.

On state assessments, Ida Middle School produces results that stand out among Monroe County districts. The school's overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places it in the top quartile relative to districts in Monroe County, and its proficiency index actually exceeds the highest district-level figure in the county comparison set. English language arts is the school's clearest strength. Proficiency rates in ELA are solid in the middle grades and rise sharply by eighth grade, where the PSAT-based results show a large majority of students reaching proficiency. Science and social studies results are also healthy across the tested grades, with fifth-grade science particularly strong and eighth-grade social studies above the midpoint.

Mathematics is the softer area. Fifth-grade math proficiency is near the halfway mark, seventh grade is comparable, but sixth and eighth grade dip below that level. The eighth-grade PSAT math result is the weakest single figure in the school's profile. A parent whose child tends to struggle in math, or who wants a particularly demanding math pathway leading into high school, may want to look into this further with the school. The data does not tell us why math lags behind the other subjects, and the school may well have supports in place that the assessment numbers alone do not capture.

Ida itself has no railway, no public transit, and no commercial downtown. Development is strung along Lewis Avenue in a loose rural pattern, and the community lost infrastructure over time rather than gaining it, with the old rail line removed entirely decades ago. Access to US-23 via Ida West Road puts Toledo and Monroe within reach by car, and M-50 runs a few miles to the north. Publicly reported sources describe a community in a stable or slow-growth trajectory, consistent with its rural residential character. No major housing developments or commercial projects surfaced in the available research.

The housing market in the school's zip code sits above the Michigan state benchmark but below the national figure, with recent year-over-year appreciation outpacing both the state and national rates. Estimated mortgage costs are modest relative to national income benchmarks, and rent data was not available. Families considering a move into the area will find a relatively affordable rural market with limited rental options, which may matter for families who are not ready to buy.

The district brief returned no parent-relevant changes, so there is little to report on recent program shifts, facility projects, or leadership transitions. That absence may simply reflect a quiet period in a small district, or it may reflect limited public reporting. Either way, families with questions about current initiatives would do best to ask the district directly.

What Ida Middle School offers is a small, cohesive rural school with strong reading and writing results, solid science and social studies performance, and a peer environment drawn from a tight-knit farming and residential community. Its math results are the piece a family should examine most closely. For parents who value a compact campus where the elementary, middle, and high schools share one site, and who are comfortable with a quiet rural setting, this is a school that performs well against its county peers and keeps students close to home.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 37%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 750%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 841%

School 41% · District 41%

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 566%

School 66% · District 66%

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 655%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 759%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 878%

School 78% · District 78%

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Science

Grade 568%

School 68% · District 68%

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

Grade 856%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 555%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Grade 861%

School 61% · District 61%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

This schoolIda Public 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 5Lower-income44%Higher-income71%28 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income41%Higher-income59%19 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income25%Higher-income66%41 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income64%Higher-income82%18 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income48%Higher-income50%2 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income30%Higher-income40%10 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income20%Higher-income56%36 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income27%Higher-income45%18 pp gap