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Eastpointe Community Schools


At a glance
621stof 625 Michigan districts▼ 38
Better than 0% of Michigan districts
24685 Kelly Rd
Eastpointe, MI 48021-1399
·(586) 533-3023·All Michigan district rankings →
Statewide performance 2012–2026
2026: better than 0.6% of districts
8
Schools
2,114
Students
Top rankedBellview Elementary School1414th of 1,492 Michigan elementary schools
Biggest riser
Bellview Elementary School up 12 spots statewide this year
Smallest classes
Crescentwood Elementary School 13.6 students per teacher
Newly ranked this year
Forest Park Elementary School and 1 more
SchoolDigger ratings
0★
2 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

Eastpointe Community Schools serves approximately 7 schools in a suburban Detroit community, including four elementary schools (K-5), one middle school (6-7), and two high schools (8-12 and 6-12), all of which face significant academic and attendance challenges compared to state averages.

For parents, the most important takeaway is that no school in this district performs at state averages, but there are notable differences between schools. Bellview Elementary School stands out as the relative academic bright spot, with 4th-grade English Language Arts proficiency at 21.4%—nearly double the district average of 11.8% and the highest single-grade score in any subject across all elementary schools. In contrast, Forest Park Elementary School and Pleasantview Elementary School show proficiency rates in the single digits for most subjects. At the secondary level, Eastpointe Middle School has 7th-grade math proficiency at just 4.7%, while Eastpointe High School posts an 11th-grade math proficiency of only 4.2% and a dropout rate of 19.0%—more than double the state average. Eastpointe Virtual Academy offers a contrasting profile: it has the lowest dropout rate (6.2%) but the highest chronic absenteeism (79.7%) and lowest per-student spending ($5,470).

Chronic absenteeism is a district-wide crisis, with every school reporting rates above 50%—more than double the state average of 27.9%. This likely explains the uniformly low test scores. Interestingly, higher spending does not correlate with better outcomes: Crescentwood Elementary School spends the most per student ($20,815) yet remains in the bottom 1% of Michigan schools. The district also serves a highly economically disadvantaged population, with 85-94% of students receiving free/reduced lunch. While early-grade ELA scores at Bellview and Pleasantview offer a glimmer of hope, these gains are not sustained into later grades, suggesting systemic challenges that require comprehensive, community-wide solutions rather than isolated school-level fixes.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Michigan Department of Education.

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