The top reported proficiency rate is 15% in English language arts. The lowest is 6% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Hamady Middle School
Hamady Middle School sits on Flint's west side, serving seventh and eighth graders in the Westwood Heights Schools district. It is a small two-grade middle school, the kind of place where a parent can expect most families to know one another. The student body is predominantly Black, with small numbers of White, Hispanic, and multiracial students. Nearly every child qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school squarely in a high-poverty context.
On state assessments, the results are sobering. In both seventh-grade math and seventh-grade English language arts, proficiency falls in the lowest reported range, meaning almost no students reached the proficient threshold. Eighth-grade math is similarly low. Eighth-grade ELA is somewhat higher, with a modest share of students testing proficient, and eighth-grade science and social studies sit just above the floor. Across all tested subjects and grades, Hamady's overall proficiency places it in the bottom quartile relative to districts in Genesee County. The state reports participation as missing, and no multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these numbers reflect a decline, a plateau, or a cohort still rebuilding after disruption. A parent weighing this school may want to look into what academic supports and interventions the school has in place, and how staff talk about growth beyond the test scores.
Because Hamady serves only seventh and eighth grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and the school does not offer the AP, dual-credit, or career pathway programs that high schools carry. No course access, staffing, attendance, or discipline data was provided, and IEP and English-learner counts were missing as well. Program offerings were not available in the data we received. These gaps mean the portrait here is limited to what the state assessment and enrollment figures can tell a family. The school's own website or a direct call to the front office would be the next step for anyone wanting to understand the day-to-day classroom experience.
The surrounding community is Flint, a mid-sized post-industrial city whose identity was built on General Motors manufacturing. Decades of GM workforce reductions drove steep population decline, and the built environment today reflects that history: older residential neighborhoods, vacant lots from demolition activity, commercial strips along major corridors, and a downtown core with cultural venues like the Capitol Theatre and the Sloan Museum. Publicly reported sources note that the city has been working through recovery from its lead water crisis, having secured a new water source, replaced lead service lines with copper, and distributed filters. The city brands itself as moving forward, with events like Back to the Bricks and the Flint Jazz Festival drawing periodic street-level energy downtown. Outside those events, Flint is largely auto-dependent, and the school sits in a residential area away from the downtown core.
Housing here is among the most affordable in the state. Typical home values in the school's zip code are far below both the state and national benchmarks, and rents are similarly low. For a family where homeownership or low housing costs are a priority, this is one of the more accessible markets you will find. The broader Genesee County market is more active, with median listing prices well below national levels and homes moving in roughly a month and a half on average. The county market has seen listing prices climb modestly in recent months, but it remains a buyer-friendly area by national standards.
The district brief turned up little in the way of specific, lasting parent-relevant changes. Westwood Heights Schools has faced historical financial challenges, according to publicly reported material, but no concrete recent initiatives or program changes were available to include here.
What this adds up to is a small, community-rooted middle school serving a high-poverty student body in a city still working its way through decades of economic and infrastructure recovery. The assessment data is weak across the board, and the available data does not give much beyond that. Families considering Hamady would benefit from asking the school directly about its academic interventions, classroom culture, and what supports exist for students working below grade level, since the public data alone does not tell that part of the story.
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