The top reported proficiency rate is 60% in English language arts. The lowest is 53% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Herrick Park Intermediate School
Herrick Park Intermediate School is a small, two-grade public school serving third and fourth graders in Tecumseh, Michigan, within Lenawee County and the Tecumseh Public Schools district. It is one of two intermediate buildings in the district, paired with Patterson Intermediate Learning Center, both serving the same grade band. This is a short academic stop in a child's life, a transitional placement between the district's early learning centers and its middle school, and the school's structure reflects that narrow purpose.
The academic picture from the most recent M-STEP administration is generally strong, with a clear pattern across the two grades. Third graders performed well above midpoint in both math and English language arts, with a substantial majority of tested students reaching proficiency in each subject. Fourth grade results were weaker, with a narrower share of students proficient in math and a bare majority in ELA. The drop from third to fourth is notable enough that a parent may want to look into this further with the school, whether it reflects cohort differences, the transition to more demanding grade-level content, or something else. Because the school serves only two grades and the trend data was not available, there is no year-over-year history to contextualize whether this is a recurring pattern or a one-year result. Participation rates were not reported.
Against the comparison set of districts in Lenawee County, Herrick Park's overall proficiency index sits in the top quartile, well above the county median. This is a genuinely strong relative standing for a building of this size and grade range, and it suggests the school is doing solid work with the students it serves, particularly in third grade.
The student body is small and predominantly white, with a small Hispanic presence and a few students identifying as Asian or two or more races. No Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students were reported. A moderate share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. IEP and English learner counts were not reported, so those populations are not characterized here. No Title I status, staffing ratios, discipline data, course access details, or attendance figures were available, and the school does not have a graduation rate or chronic absenteeism measure because it serves only early elementary grades that fall outside those reporting frameworks.
Tecumseh itself is a small city with a traditional downtown along Chicago Boulevard, the M-50 corridor, where antiques shops, breweries, restaurants, and locally owned retail line the street over the River Raisin. The city has a manufacturing heritage, once known as the Refrigeration Capital of the World through Tecumseh Products, and that company's former plant site is now the focus of a brownfield cleanup and mixed-use redevelopment effort. The largest current employer is Kirchhoff Automotive, an automotive supplier, with Tecumseh Public Schools itself the second largest. The economy blends Tier 1 auto suppliers and smaller manufacturers with retail, dining, and public-sector jobs. Civic life centers on the downtown core, with City Hall, the Tecumseh Center for the Arts, a historical museum, an annual Art Trail of sculptures, and festivals including the Ice Sculpting Festival in January and Appleumpkin in October. Schools are distributed across the city on separate campuses rather than clustered downtown, so Herrick Park sits apart from the civic and commercial core.
The housing market in the school's zip code is moderate relative to the national picture, with typical home values near the state benchmark and well below the national one. Year-over-year home value growth has been running faster than the state as a whole. Rent data was not available for this area. For a family weighing purchase versus rental, the estimated monthly mortgage cost runs above the estimated rent by a modest margin, though without local rent figures that comparison is incomplete. Price-to-income affordability sits close to the national ratio.
We looked for recent district-level changes such as referendums, curriculum shifts, or facility decisions that would matter to families, but the search returned nothing clearing a lasting-impact bar, so that material is left out rather than guessed. Program offerings for Herrick Park were not provided in the data, which limits the picture of what happens inside the building beyond the tested subjects. A parent considering this school would have a strong academic signal in third grade, a softer one in fourth, and a community setting that is small, stable, and rooted in both manufacturing history and active civic life.
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