Endeavour Elementary and Middle School, Ray MI

Original Research by School Decision on Endeavour Elementary and Middle School

Endeavour Elementary and Middle School sits along a rural stretch of road in Ray Township, part of the New Haven Community Schools district in Macomb County. It serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade, and its enrollment is mid-sized for a building spanning that many grades. The student body is predominantly white, with a meaningful Black enrollment and smaller Asian, Hispanic, and multiracial presences. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and it operates as the kind of combined elementary-and-middle building that gives families a single continuous placement through the upper-elementary and early-adolescent years.

On state assessments, the academic picture is mixed, with a clear split between literacy and mathematics. English language arts is the stronger subject across nearly every tested grade. Fifth grade stands out as a particularly strong year, and eighth-grade ELA proficiency is strikingly high, with most tested students reaching proficiency on the PSAT-based measure. Seventh grade is also solid. The earlier elementary grades are more middling in ELA but still respectable. Mathematics tells a different story. Third grade starts reasonably well, but proficiency drops sharply in the upper elementary grades, with fifth grade particularly low. Sixth and eighth grade remain on the weaker side, while seventh grade recovers somewhat. Science and social studies fall in between, with fifth-grade social studies a soft spot and eighth-grade social studies coming in at about half of tested students proficient.

Taken together, Endeavour's overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places it above the midpoint among districts in Macomb County, according to the county-based comparison set. That positioning reflects the strength in literacy more than math. A parent considering this school may want to look into the math trajectory across the grade bands, particularly the dip in the upper elementary years, to understand what supports are in place and how the school is addressing it.

Because Endeavour serves only through eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report, and that is expected for a school with this grade span rather than a sign of anything missing. Some other data points the page would normally carry were also absent from the available sources, including special-education and English-learner enrollment figures, chronic absenteeism, discipline data, staffing ratios, and any program offerings or specialized course access. We looked for these and found nothing reported, so we left them out rather than guess. Participation rates for the state assessments were also missing from the source data.

Ray Township itself is a small, low-density, rural-residential community in north-central Macomb County, roughly twenty-five miles north of Detroit. It has no traditional downtown or commercial main street. Civic life clusters around the township hall, public library, and community park along Wolcott Road, with Wolcott Mill Metropark and Pine Valley Golf Club serving as recreational anchors. The area is car-dependent, with minimal walkability and no public transit. Housing is overwhelmingly owner-occupied, and the township is described as affluent, with a country-like character of subdivisions interspersed with farmland. The local housing market, based on the school's zip code, carries typical home values above the state benchmark, and the broader county market shows active inventory growing year over year with median listing prices holding fairly steady.

The broader district context matters here. New Haven Community Schools has been described as the fastest-growing district in Macomb County, and a bond issue passed in 2024 to renovate and reopen Siefert Elementary, with reopening planned for 2027. That growth pressure and added capacity may shape the environment around Endeavour in the coming years, and bond debt can affect local property taxes.

For a family weighing Endeavour, the appeal is a continuous kindergarten-through-eighth-grade pathway in a quiet, rural-residential setting within a district dealing with growth and investment. The literacy instruction appears to be a genuine strength, particularly in the middle grades. The mathematics results are the area most worth pressing on, and the gaps in publicly reported data on student support services, staffing, and programs mean a parent would benefit from asking the school directly about those dimensions.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 343%

School 43% · District 34% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 425%

School 25% · District 15% · ▲ 10 pts above district

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

Grade 516%

School 16% · District 16%

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 621%

School 21% · District 21%

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

Grade 737%

School 37% · District 34% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

Grade 820%

School 20% · District 18% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 36%

▼ 2 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 439%

School 39% · District 31% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 54%

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

Grade 643%

School 43% · District 43%

▲ 9 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 748%

School 48% · District 46% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

Grade 873%

School 73% · District 71% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Science

Grade 544%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 837%

School 37% · District 35% · ▲ 2 pts above district

even with state median · even with county median

Social studies

Grade 521%

School 21% · District 21%

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

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 47% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

This schoolNew Haven Community 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 3Lower-income32%Higher-income40%8 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income41%Higher-income73%32 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income42%Higher-income44%2 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income49%Higher-income46%3 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income67%Higher-income79%12 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income41%Higher-income45%4 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income16%Higher-income17%1 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income20%Higher-income23%3 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income36%Higher-income38%2 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income14%Higher-income27%14 pp gap