The top reported proficiency rate is 72% in Science. The lowest is 58% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Long Meadow Elementary School
Long Meadow Elementary School sits in Rochester Hills, a sprawling, primarily residential suburb about twenty-five miles north of downtown Detroit. The city grew out of the former Avon Township and has no traditional downtown of its own; the neighboring city of Rochester serves that role. Rochester Hills is car-oriented, with separated subdivisions, strip commercial corridors, and large campus properties like Oakland University and Rochester Christian University. The Clinton River and Paint Creek run through the area, and Spencer Park is a recognizable civic landmark. It is a family-oriented community with a substantial share of married-couple households and children under eighteen, and its Asian population has grown in recent decades, adding some diversity to what remains a predominantly white city.
Long Meadow is part of the Rochester Community School District and serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. With enrollment in the mid-five hundreds, it is a sizable elementary school for its grade band. The student body is mostly white, with smaller Asian, Hispanic, multiracial, and Black populations. A small fraction of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is low for the region and reflects the affixed community's generally comfortable economic profile. Data on English learners and students with individualized education programs was not available, so those populations cannot be characterized here.
Academically, Long Meadow posts strong results on Michigan's M-STEP assessment. In mathematics, third graders performed at a high proficiency level, and fourth graders remained strong. Fifth-grade math proficiency dipped notably compared to the younger grades, a pattern a parent may want to look into further with the school. English language arts tells a different and encouraging story: proficiency rises steadily from third through fifth grade, with fifth graders performing particularly well. Fifth-grade science proficiency was also strong, and fifth-grade social studies was solid if more modest. Across all tested subjects and grades, Long Meadow's overall proficiency places it in the top quartile relative to districts in Oakland County, which is a meaningful marker of academic strength in a county with many high-performing districts. Because this is an elementary school, there is no graduation rate to report, and that metric simply does not apply here. Chronic absenteeism data was not available.
Rochester Community School District has three high schools spread across the city on separate campuses, and Long Meadow feeds into that broader system. The district brief turned up no recent bond issues, referendums, curriculum overhauls, or boundary changes that cleared a lasting-impact threshold, so there is little to report in the way of district-level disruption or transformation. That stability may appeal to families looking for continuity through the elementary years.
The housing market around Long Meadow is expensive relative to the state and nation. Typical home values in the school's zip code run well above both the state and national benchmarks, and rents are correspondingly high. Oakland County's broader market has seen a recent uptick in active and new listings, and median listing prices have softened somewhat year over year, giving buyers marginally more inventory to work with than in the recent past. Still, the estimated monthly mortgage cost on a typical home far exceeds typical rent, and both demand a substantial income. Homes move at a moderate pace, spending roughly a month on the market. Families weighing a move into the attendance area should expect to pay a premium for access to this school and the broader Rochester district.
Long Meadow fits families seeking a high-performing, stable elementary program in an affluent, car-dependent suburban setting. The school's test results are genuinely strong across most subjects and grades, its peer group comes from relatively advantaged backgrounds, and the surrounding community offers parks, two universities, and quiet residential neighborhoods. The fifth-grade math dip is the one academic soft spot the data reveals. Otherwise, this is a school where academic outcomes, community stability, and housing costs all run high.
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