Milan Middle School, Milan MI - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Milan Middle School

Milan Middle School sits in the small city of Milan, a residential community straddling the Monroe and Washtenaw county line, roughly a short drive south of Ann Arbor. The town has a compact, walkable historic Main Street core listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with older structures dating to the nineteenth century and the Saline River running through its center. Beyond that downtown grid, Milan is auto-dependent for most daily needs, with US 23 running along the eastern edge. The city promotes itself as a place to raise a family, and its schools sit within the city limits rather than on distant campuses, integrated into the town fabric alongside the public library, parks, and City Hall. The Milan ZIP code also serves surrounding townships in both counties, giving the city a role as a local hub for a broader rural and suburban area.

The school is part of Milan Area Schools, a district that recently reconfigured its grade bands. According to publicly reported information, the district shifted Milan Middle School to serve grades five through eight beginning in 2024, moving it down from the prior six-through-eight structure. The district said the change was designed to expand early childhood programming at the elementary level and improve transitions between buildings. For families, that means the middle school now includes fifth graders, and the building assignment and commute for every grade level may have shifted from what older siblings experienced.

State testing data from the most recent year shows a mixed academic picture across the tested grades and subjects. In English language arts, proficiency rates range from the upper thirties in fifth grade to the low forties in sixth and seventh, with a strong jump in eighth grade, where the PSAT-based ELA results show a clear majority of students reaching proficiency. That eighth-grade ELA result stands out as the school's strongest single performance measure. Math results are more consistent across grades, sitting in the mid-thirties range from fifth through eighth grade, with a modest uptick in seventh. Science and social studies are tested in fifth and eighth grades; eighth-grade results in both subjects are notably stronger than the fifth-grade results, with roughly half of eighth graders proficient in science and social studies, compared with about a third in fifth grade science and closer to three in ten in fifth grade social studies. A parent looking at the fifth-grade results may want to ask the school how the recent grade reconfiguration and the arrival of younger students has affected instruction and support at that level.

When measured against districts in Washtenaw County, the school's overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades lands above the county midpoint. That comparison set reflects the county's districts, and Milan's position in it suggests the school is performing reasonably well relative to its immediate neighbors, even as individual subject results vary.

The student body is predominantly white, with small populations of students identifying as Hispanic, multiracial, Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Asian. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not available, so those populations cannot be described here. Participation rate data was also missing from the assessment results.

On the housing side, home values in the Milan ZIP code sit above the Michigan state benchmark but below the national figure, with a price-to-income ratio that suggests a moderate affordability picture for the region. Home values have been appreciating at a pace slightly ahead of the state average. Rent data was not available. No specific information on major employers was found, and the city's employment base appears to be a mix of local businesses and commuter access to larger employment centers via US 23. The locale brief did not surface data on recent housing development projects, so the growth trajectory beyond the town's historical pattern is unclear from the available sources.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 535%

School 35% · District 35%

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 633%

School 33% · District 33%

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

Grade 741%

School 41% · District 41%

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 837%

School 37% · District 37%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 37%

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

Grade 643%

School 43% · District 43%

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 742%

School 42% · District 42%

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 864%

School 64% · District 64%

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Science

Grade 535%

School 35% · District 35%

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 852%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 15 pts above state median · even with county median

Social studies

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 30%

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

This schoolMilan Area Schools, 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-income19%Higher-income51%32 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income33%Higher-income49%16 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income21%Higher-income54%33 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income50%Higher-income73%23 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income14%Higher-income51%37 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income25%Higher-income38%13 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income17%Higher-income55%38 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income24%Higher-income45%21 pp gap