The top reported proficiency rate is 34% in English language arts. The lowest is 9% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Dort Elementary School
Dort Elementary School sits on Dort Street in Roseville, a mature inner-ring Detroit suburb in Macomb County. It is part of Roseville Community Schools, a district spread across a city with no traditional downtown, organized instead around Gratiot Avenue as its commercial spine and a grid of mile roads and freeways for getting around. The city is car-dependent by design, with strip retail and shopping centers rather than a walkable core, and its built environment dates largely from the mid-twentieth century. Roseville has been slowly losing population for years, though home values have still managed to climb modestly. The housing market here is affordable relative to both state and national levels, and renting costs less than carrying a mortgage, which may appeal to families looking for lower-cost entry points into the metro area.
Dort serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade and is a regular public school. Its enrollment is small for a building spanning seven grade levels, which can mean tighter-knit cohorts and more familiarity among staff and families. The student body is roughly balanced between white and black students, with smaller representation from Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students. A very large share of the children qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, pointing to a community where economic pressure is part of many households' daily reality. Data on English learners and special education counts was not available, so those program details are not something a family can assess from this information alone.
On Michigan's M-STEP assessments in the most recent school year, results were uneven across subjects and grades. English language arts is the relative bright spot: proficiency was low in third grade but rose sharply in fourth and fifth grades, where a meaningful portion of students met or exceeded the bar. Math was consistently low across third, fourth, and fifth grades, with only a small fraction of tested students reaching proficiency. Fifth-grade science landed in a middling range, while fifth-grade social studies was the weakest result, with only a handful of students clearing the proficient threshold. When compared against districts in Macomb County, Dort's overall proficiency sits below the midpoint. These results suggest the school may be building some momentum in literacy in the upper elementary grades, while math remains a softer area. A parent weighing this school may want to look into what math instruction and intervention look like in the early grades, and how the staff is responding to the pattern.
No graduation rate applies here, because Dort does not serve high school grades. Chronic absenteeism and discipline data were not available, so it is not possible to speak to those dimensions from the provided material. Program offerings, staffing details, and course access information were also absent, which limits the picture of what happens inside the building day to day.
Roseville itself offers a practical, working-class setting. Manufacturing, health care, and retail are the dominant employment sectors, and the city sits close enough to Detroit for commuting. The civic center and public library serve as community anchors, and the school system distributes its buildings across the city rather than concentrating them in one area. Publicly reported information on recent district-level changes was thin, with no clear evidence of new referendums, curriculum overhauls, or tax shifts in the available sources.
Dort fits a family looking for a small, community-rooted elementary school in an affordable, established suburb, especially one where literacy in the upper grades appears to be gaining traction. The math results and the absence of several data points mean a family would want to ask direct questions before deciding whether this is the right academic pathway for their child.
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