The top reported proficiency rate is 6% in English language arts. The lowest is 2% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Arthur Hill High School
Arthur Hill High School was a regular public high school serving grades nine through twelve on Saginaw's Mackinaw Street, part of the Saginaw School District of the City of. The most important thing a parent or resident needs to know is that Arthur Hill, as a standalone school, no longer exists in its prior form. Publicly reported district information confirms that in fall 2024, the district merged Arthur Hill High School with Saginaw High School into a single new facility called Saginaw United High School. The former Arthur Hill building was repurposed as the Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, and the former Saginaw High building became Saginaw Middle School. This consolidation reshaped school choice, attendance boundaries, and grade configurations across the district. Anyone reading this profile to make a current enrollment decision should look into Saginaw United High School and SASA directly, since the data below reflects Arthur Hill before the merger.
The school served a predominantly Black student body, with a substantial Hispanic population and a smaller white enrollment. A very large share of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, pointing to a community with considerable economic need. The enrollment was moderate for a high school in this grade band, with the largest cohort concentrated in ninth grade and declining counts in upper grades, a pattern that can reflect dropout, transfer, or graduation attrition. Special population data for individualized education programs and English learners was not reported, so those figures are absent here rather than missing for a known reason.
Academic data is limited and dated. The only state assessment results available come from the 2014-15 school year, and they report eighth-grade scores in math, English language arts, and social studies. This is an unusual match for a school listed as serving grades nine through twelve, and the data is nearly a decade old, so it tells little about current performance. What those records do show is proficiency rates that were very low across all three subjects, with only a handful of tested students reaching proficiency in each area. Participation was generally solid in the subjects where it was reported. Because this data predates the merger and the current configuration, a parent would want to ask the district or Saginaw United directly about recent assessment results.
No graduation rate, chronic absenteeism, or course access data was available for Arthur Hill in this profile. No staffing, discipline, or attendance figures were reported either. The neighbor comparison set, which positions this school relative to districts in Saginaw County, placed Arthur Hill's proficiency index in the bottom quartile, well below the county median. The graduation rate comparison was not applicable because no rate was reported for this school. These gaps in current outcomes data mean a clear academic picture is hard to assemble from the available record alone.
Saginaw itself is a former industrial and manufacturing center, publicly described as having transitioned from a lumber town to a General Motors-led automotive parts hub during the twentieth century. As part of the Rust Belt, the city saw major manufacturing decline, population loss, and unemployment, though it still carries a higher proportion of manufacturing jobs than the national average. Current economic development efforts center on innovation, clean energy, and continued manufacturing exports. The city sits along the Saginaw River about fifteen miles inland from Saginaw Bay, near a National Wildlife Refuge and within the Saginaw Bay watershed. Downtown Saginaw has civic and cultural anchors including the Castle Museum, Temple Theatre, and Dow Event Center. The city's population has continued a downward trend, and no specific new housing developments were surfaced in the available research.
The housing market around Arthur Hill is very affordable. Home values in the school's zip code sit well below both the Michigan and national benchmarks, and rents are similarly modest relative to broader state and national figures. Estimated mortgage costs are low, and the rent-to-income ratio is light. For families already in the area or considering it, housing access is not a barrier the way it is in higher-cost Michigan districts. At the same time, the economic context of the community, reflected in the high proportion of students qualifying for meal assistance, tells a more complicated story about household resources.
For a parent trying to understand what this school was, the honest summary is that the available data describes a high-poverty, predominantly Black and Hispanic high school in a struggling Rust Belt city, with very low dated proficiency results and no recent graduation or attendance data to weigh. The merger into Saginaw United means that profile is now historical. The next step for any family is to engage directly with the district about what Saginaw United High School and the repurposed SASA campus now offer.
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