Summary:
Laingsburg High School is the sole high school in the Laingsburg Community Schools district, serving grades 9 through 12 with an enrollment of 340 students in a small-town Michigan setting.
For parents, this is a school that clearly excels in literacy and humanities while showing a notable gap in math. In the most recent testing year, 66.3% of 11th graders were proficient in SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, compared to the state average of 52.1%, and 62.9% were proficient in M-Step Social Studies versus 43.2% statewide. However, SAT Math proficiency was just 29.2%—still above the state’s 26.5%, but dramatically lower than the school’s own reading scores. This pattern repeats in 9th and 10th grade PSAT results, where math proficiency hovers in the low-to-mid 30s. The school’s graduation rate is strong at 93.3% (state: 84.0%), and its dropout rate of 3.3% is less than half the state average of 7.1%. The district itself is ranked in the 82nd percentile in Michigan with a 4-star rating.
One of the most encouraging trends is the school’s rapid improvement. Its state ranking jumped from the 66th percentile in 2023-2024 to the 78th percentile in 2024-2025, with gains in science and social studies proficiency year over year. Yet there is a paradox: despite high test scores and graduation rates, chronic absenteeism sits at 26.6%—slightly better than the state’s 27.9% but notably worse than the district’s own 20.5% average. With only 21.76% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch, the school serves a relatively economically advantaged population, which often correlates with academic success. For parents, the key takeaway is that Laingsburg High School offers a strong, improving education with exceptional humanities instruction, but families should ask how the school plans to close the math gap and address attendance issues to sustain its upward trajectory.
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