The top reported proficiency rate is 54% in Science. The lowest is 24% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Washington Elementary School
Washington Elementary School sits in Marysville, a small city on the western shore of the St. Clair River in St. Clair County, Michigan. The city calls itself the "City of Contented Living," and its character is decidedly residential. There is no traditional downtown or walkable Main Street. Instead, winding streets and subdivisions define the built environment, with retail and restaurants spread along auto-oriented corridors like Gratiot Boulevard and Michigan Avenue. A riverfront boardwalk and the Bridge-to-Bay Bike Trail give residents recreational access to the water, and Interstate 94 cuts directly through the city, keeping it car-dependent but connected. An industrial park occupies the southern half of Marysville along M-29, and the local economy draws on employers like Intertape Polymer, Mueller Brass, Marysville Hydrocarbons, and a MOPAR parts distribution center housed in the historic Wills Sainte Claire factory building. A Meijer supermarket anchors the retail sector. The city has been described as growing, with recent industrial expansion including an ethanol refinery near the southern border.
Washington is one of three elementary schools in the Marysville Public Schools district, feeding into a single middle school and high school. The school serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Its enrollment is moderate for an elementary building. The student body is predominantly white, with small Hispanic and multiracial populations. Slightly more than half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The data did not include counts for students with individualized education programs or English learners, so those figures are not available here.
On state assessments from the most recent school year, Washington's results tell a mixed but generally solid story. In mathematics, third graders posted the strongest proficiency rate, with a clear majority reaching proficient or above. Fourth grade math was lower, and fifth grade dipped further, so there is a downward trend as students move up the grades. English language arts showed a different pattern: third and fifth grade both had a majority of students proficient, while fourth grade was the weakest. Fifth grade science saw just over half of tested students reach proficiency. Social studies was the soft spot, with only about a quarter of fifth graders scoring proficient or above. This is a single-year snapshot, and no multi-year trend data was available to show whether these results are improving, holding, or declining over time. A parent may want to ask the school how it supports students in the upper elementary grades, particularly in math and social studies, where the numbers settle lower.
Measured against districts across St. Clair County, Washington's overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades lands above the midpoint. That places it in the stronger half of the county's district-level results, which is a meaningful indicator for a school serving a community where just over half the students come from economically disadvantaged households.
No graduation rate applies here because Washington is an elementary school. Chronic absenteeism data was not available. Discipline, course access, staffing, and attendance information were also absent from the data, so those aspects cannot be characterized. We looked for recent district-level changes that parents might care about and found little of lasting impact, so there is nothing to report on that front.
The housing market around Washington Elementary is relatively affordable. Typical home values in the school's zip code sit below both the Michigan state benchmark and the national one, and the price-to-income ratio is moderate. That suggests a family earning a typical income could manage a purchase without the stretched budgets seen in higher-cost markets. No rental data was available for this area.
For a family weighing Washington Elementary, the picture is of a conventional public school in a quiet, car-dependent suburb with riverfront amenities and an industrial employment base. Academic performance is respectable by county standards, with strengths in early-grade math and upper-grade reading, alongside room for growth in fifth-grade math and social studies. The community is modestly priced and stable, without the pressures of a hot housing market.
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