Heritage School, Stockbridge MI - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Heritage School

Heritage School is a regular public school serving grades three through six in the Stockbridge Community Schools district, located in the village of Stockbridge in southeastern Ingham County. The school sits on Western Street, within the village's compact street grid rather than on a separated campus. Its enrollment is moderate for an upper-elementary building, with grade-level cohorts that thin slightly from the youngest to the oldest. The student body is predominantly white, with small Hispanic, Black, and Asian populations. Nearly half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Information on special education enrollment, English learner status, and staffing was not available in the data we received, so those pieces of the picture remain unstated rather than assumed.

On state assessments, Heritage shows a distinct pattern. Math proficiency starts strong in the early grades, with a clear majority of third graders and just over half of fourth graders scoring proficient or above. By fifth grade, math proficiency drops notably, and it falls further in sixth grade to roughly one in three. English language arts follows a similar arc: third graders perform respectably, fourth and fifth graders sit in a middling band, and sixth-grade proficiency dips to roughly one in four. Science, tested only in fifth grade, lands near the middle. Social studies, also a fifth-grade-only subject, comes in lower. The overall pattern points to solid early-grade instruction with a downward slide as students move toward middle school, a trend a parent may want to look into further with the school, especially around the transition years. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is unclear whether this grade-by-grade dip is a persistent feature or something specific to the current cohort.

Measured against other districts in Ingham County, Heritage School's overall proficiency sits above the midpoint, meaning its average proficiency across tested subjects and grades places it on the stronger side of the county's district distribution. That positioning is driven largely by the early-grade math and ELA results, which carry the school's composite above the county median.

Because Heritage serves only grades three through six, there is no graduation rate, no high school course access data, and no college or career readiness information. Those gaps are expected for a school with this grade band and do not reflect a missing or weak result. Chronic absenteeism data was also not available for this school.

The village of Stockbridge is small and rural, positioned at the crossroads of two state highways between Ann Arbor and East Lansing. The local economy runs on small business and agriculture, with no single large employer dominating. Stockbridge Community Schools is likely among the larger local employers. The village center is built around an old-fashioned town square anchored by a historic township hall that began life as an opera house and still stands as a civic landmark. Veterans Park sits just off the center and serves as the primary gathering space, with playgrounds, courts, a pump track, and a skate park. Community events throughout the year bring residents together in the village core. A long-distance trail trailhead and a nearby nature preserve add outdoor recreation within easy reach. No public library branch or fixed-route transit was identified in publicly reported sources. Walkability is concentrated in the village center and does not extend broadly across the surrounding township.

Growth in the area is slow. The village has seen modest population growth in recent years while the surrounding township shows slight decline, with a small uptick in median household income projected. The housing market here sits above the state benchmark for typical home values but well below the national figure, and the price-to-income ratio is moderate, meaning ownership is relatively attainable for working families compared with many parts of the region. No major new housing developments were identified. The village has an active Downtown Development Authority and is working on a parks and recreation plan covering the next several years.

No district-level program offerings, strategic priorities, or recent parent-relevant changes were available in the data we reviewed. We searched for district-level developments and found little of lasting impact reported, so we left that section out rather than guess.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 355%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 455%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 535%

School 35% · District 35%

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

Grade 632%

School 32% · District 32%

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

English language arts

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 47%

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

Grade 440%

School 40% · District 40%

▼ 1 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 38%

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

Grade 623%

School 23% · District 23%

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Science

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 40%

even with state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 528%

School 28% · District 28%

even with state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

This schoolStockbridge 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-income48%Higher-income47%1 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income39%Higher-income41%2 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income33%Higher-income42%10 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income13%Higher-income33%20 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income28%Higher-income52%24 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income63%Higher-income51%12 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income48%Higher-income61%14 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income33%Higher-income36%2 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income23%Higher-income40%16 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income29%Higher-income48%19 pp gap