Summary:
The three elementary schools within Clintondale Community Schools serve students in Clinton Township, Michigan, a district facing significant socioeconomic challenges where all schools report high poverty rates and academic performance consistently trails state averages.
If you are comparing schools in this area, Charles C McGlinnen School is the strongest academic option. It holds the district's best state ranking (20th percentile) and is the only school to have earned a 1-star rating. In 4th-grade ELA, McGlinnen's proficiency rate (38.1%) was more than four times higher than Robbie Hall Parker School's rate (9.26%). McGlinnen also has the lower chronic absenteeism rate at 37.8%, compared to Parker's staggering 57.5%. Rainbow Early Childhood Center is different entirely—it serves only Pre-K and Kindergarten students with a tiny enrollment of 24, offers an exceptionally low student-teacher ratio of 2.7, and spends $42,422 per student, but it does not participate in state testing so no academic comparison is possible.
Across the district, proficiency rates in math and ELA are in the single digits or low teens for most grade levels—for example, 5th-grade math proficiency is just 9.8% at McGlinnen and 5.66% at Parker, versus the state average of 32.2%. Chronic absenteeism is a crisis affecting all buildings, with rates far exceeding the state average of 27.9%. Notably, Parker spends nearly $3,000 more per student than McGlinnen yet achieves worse results, suggesting that attendance—not funding—may be the key driver of outcomes. There is a glimmer of hope: McGlinnen's state ranking improved from the 8th to the 20th percentile in one year. For families, the data suggests that addressing attendance and wraparound supports will be essential, as academic interventions alone appear insufficient given the high poverty and absenteeism levels.
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