The top reported proficiency rate is 18% in English language arts. The lowest is 4% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Moore Elementary School
Moore Elementary School sits on Wisner Street in Mount Morris, a small, mainly residential city in Genesee County within the Flint metropolitan area. The city's own website describes it as a quiet, family-oriented community with clean streets and easy highway access to I-75. Manufacturing is the largest employment sector locally, followed by health care and retail, and many residents commute into the broader Flint area for work. Median household income in Mount Morris runs well below the Michigan state median, and the housing market reflects that: typical home values in the school's zip code sit far below both state and national benchmarks, making this one of the more affordable corners of Genesee County for families looking to buy. The county market overall has been heating up, with rising listing prices and homes moving somewhat faster than a year ago, but the immediate area around Moore remains modestly priced.
Moore is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and it serves only second and third graders. That narrow grade band shapes everything about what the school can and cannot show in the data. Because Michigan's state testing begins in third grade, the only current assessment results are for M-STEP English language arts and math at grade three. There are no proficiency results for second grade, since those students are not tested. Older science and social studies results from several years back appear in the data, but those were from grade levels the school no longer serves, so they tell you little about the school as it operates today.
On the current third-grade assessments, proficiency rates are low in both subjects, with more students scoring below the proficient threshold than above it. English language arts results are somewhat stronger than math, but neither result is strong in absolute terms. When placed against the comparison set of districts in Genesee County, Moore's overall proficiency index lands in the bottom quartile. A parent weighing this school may want to look into how the building supports early literacy and numeracy, what interventions are in place, and how the district frames these results in its improvement plans. The school does not have graduation rate data, because it serves only early elementary grades. Chronic absenteeism and discipline data were not available.
The student body is small, as you would expect for a two-grade building. A very large share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Moore among the higher-poverty schools in the county. The enrollment is majority white, with Black students forming the next largest group, followed by smaller proportions of Hispanic students and students of two or more races. Data on English learners and students with individualized education programs was not reported, so it is hard to say from the available information how those populations are served or how large they are.
Mount Morris Consolidated Schools is the parent district, and publicly available sources turned up little in the way of recent news or reports about district-level changes that would affect families, such as new programs, facility upgrades, or leadership shifts. The district brief came back essentially empty, so there is nothing concrete to relay about strategic direction or recent initiatives.
What a parent is looking at with Moore is a small, early-grades neighborhood school in a working-class community where housing is affordable and the cost of living is low. The academic results that exist are weak, and the comparison to county peers is not favorable on that front. At the same time, the school serves a population with substantial economic need, and the narrow grade range means only one year of tested data exists. Families considering Moore would do well to ask directly about reading support, small-group instruction, and how the school prepares third graders for the transition to the upper elementary building where they will spend fourth grade and beyond.
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