Summary:
The Vassar Public Schools district in Michigan is home to two high schools: Vassar Senior High School and Clarence Fischer Center. While Vassar Senior High School is the larger and more established of the two, with 474 students, both schools face challenges in terms of academic performance and serving a population with significant economic disadvantages.
Vassar Senior High School has shown some improvement in its statewide ranking, moving from 431st out of 735 Michigan high schools in 2022-2023 to 252nd out of 739 in 2024-2025, with a corresponding increase in its SchoolDigger star rating from 2 to 3 stars. However, the school's test scores, particularly in mathematics, lag behind the state averages, with only 20% of 11th-grade students proficient or better in SAT Mathematics, compared to the state average of 27.5%. Both Vassar Senior High School and Clarence Fischer Center have similar four-year graduation rates of around 82.8% and dropout rates of around 7.6% for the 2023-2024 school year.
The high percentages of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch at both schools, 59.49% at Vassar Senior High School and 78.57% at Clarence Fischer Center, suggest that the Vassar Public Schools district serves a population with significant economic challenges. Clarence Fischer Center has a higher per-student spending of $22,633 compared to Vassar Senior High School's $14,814 for the 2023-2024 school year, which may indicate that the smaller school offers specialized programs or resources to support its student population.
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