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Roseville Middle School

Public Grades 6-8
817th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 896 Michigan Middle Schools
Better than 9% of Michigan middle schools
Summary

Roseville Middle School in Roseville, MI, serves 620 students in grades 6-8 and is part of the Roseville Community Schools district, a community facing significant socioeconomic challenges where nearly three-quarters of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

The most pressing issue at Roseville Middle School is an extremely high chronic absenteeism rate—62.5% of students missed significant school in the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the state average of 27.9%. This directly impacts academics: the school has ranked in the bottom 10th percentile of Michigan middle schools for four straight years. On the 2025-2026 M-STEP, only 7.1% of 6th graders and 4.82% of 7th graders were proficient in math, compared to state averages above 31%. Even the school's relative strength—8th-grade PSAT English Language Arts at 37.4% proficiency—trails the state average of 64.8% by a wide margin.

What makes this situation particularly striking is the comparison to Eastland Middle School, located less than two miles away in the same district. Eastland consistently ranks in the 24th-26th percentile with similar demographics (75.81% free/reduced lunch) and nearly identical per-pupil spending ($15,507 vs. $16,039). Yet Eastland's 8th graders achieved 57.4% proficiency on the PSAT ELA versus just 37.4% at Roseville. Roseville also spends more per student than higher-performing neighbors like Richards Middle School in Fraser ($14,371) and Jefferson Middle School in St. Clair Shores ($15,083), which ranks in the 75th percentile and achieves proficiency rates 3-5 times higher. There are small signs of hope—chronic absenteeism has dropped from 75.2% in 2021-2022 to 62.5%, and 8th-grade science and social studies scores improved notably last year—but the school still faces an uphill battle in turning these trends around.

620
Students ?
19.0
Student/teacher ratio ?
$16,039
Per pupil spending ?
72.3%
Free/reduced lunch eligible (2024-25) ?
All students in Michigan receive free school meals.
 16250 Martin Rd
       Roseville, MI  48066-4737

(586) 445-5600

District: Roseville Community Schools


Students who attend Roseville Middle School usually attend:

High:    Roseville High School

Feeder schools for Roseville Middle School:

Elementary:    Dort Elementary School
    Joseph G Steenland Elementary School
    Kaiser Elementary School
    Ruth H Green Elementary School
Racial breakdown:

African American:
47.7%
White:
39.8%
Two or more races:
8.9%
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At a glance
▼ Ranking trend: Declining — 19th percentile in 2016 → 9th in 2026
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Michigan average (15% vs 41% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (9th percentile)
!High chronic absenteeism (62% vs 28% Michigan)
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school15%
District avg18%
Michigan avg41%
817th of 896
Michigan public middle schools ?
Bottom 9%▼ down 11 pts since 2016
From bottom 19% (2016) to bottom 9% (2026)
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SchoolDigger rating ?
2nd of 2Middle Schools in the Roseville Community Schools
533rd of 625Roseville Community Schools among Michigan districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMichigan percentileRating
202610.6817 of 8968.8%☆☆☆☆☆
202512.0790 of 89011.2%★☆☆☆☆
202411.4813 of 8979.4%☆☆☆☆☆
202310.6800 of 8839.4%☆☆☆☆☆
202212.2701 of 7769.7%☆☆☆☆☆
20219.1645 of 6754.4%☆☆☆☆☆
201915.3682 of 79213.9%★☆☆☆☆
201822.6687 of 83818.0%★☆☆☆☆
201711.6740 of 8219.9%☆☆☆☆☆
201619.4720 of 89419.5%★☆☆☆☆
201522.7710 of 91922.7%★☆☆☆☆
201430.6682 of 92126.0%★☆☆☆☆
201326.4713 of 91922.4%★☆☆☆☆
201229.0697 of 90022.6%★☆☆☆☆
201144.0619 of 85827.9%★☆☆☆☆
201039.2654 of 85123.1%★☆☆☆☆
200938.5643 of 84724.1%★☆☆☆☆
200838.1640 of 83923.7%★☆☆☆☆
200745.2578 of 82329.8%★☆☆☆☆
200643.3592 of 80626.6%★☆☆☆☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMichigan percentileRating
202622.5283 of 33716.0%★☆☆☆☆
202521.1290 of 33814.2%★☆☆☆☆
202419.4264 of 30012.0%★☆☆☆☆
202313.2295 of 3104.8%☆☆☆☆☆
202218.7160 of 18212.1%★☆☆☆☆
201916.9178 of 1969.2%☆☆☆☆☆
201838.8206 of 36643.7%★★☆☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMichigan percentileRating
20268.4751 of 7894.8%☆☆☆☆☆
202511.0727 of 7897.9%☆☆☆☆☆
20249.4729 of 7715.4%☆☆☆☆☆
20239.9713 of 7707.4%☆☆☆☆☆
20229.6625 of 6574.9%☆☆☆☆☆
202110.3501 of 5213.8%☆☆☆☆☆
201915.3579 of 65812.0%★☆☆☆☆
201821.8631 of 79420.5%★☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMichigan percentileRating
202611.7778 of 8346.7%☆☆☆☆☆
202512.1768 of 8327.7%☆☆☆☆☆
202412.2764 of 8368.6%☆☆☆☆☆
202310.8767 of 8257.0%☆☆☆☆☆
202215.4621 of 69110.1%★☆☆☆☆
202112.1500 of 5234.4%☆☆☆☆☆
201915.6604 of 67210.1%★☆☆☆☆
201823.7650 of 81520.2%★☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMichigan percentileRating
20269.6757 of 8136.9%☆☆☆☆☆
202510.8731 of 7988.4%☆☆☆☆☆
20249.5745 of 7865.2%☆☆☆☆☆
20237.3745 of 7764.0%☆☆☆☆☆
202210.1614 of 6586.7%☆☆☆☆☆
20215.4536 of 5400.7%☆☆☆☆☆
20199.8600 of 6396.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201821.7630 of 79721.0%★☆☆☆☆

Multi-racial

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMichigan percentileRating
20269.8187 of 1954.1%☆☆☆☆☆
202514.9179 of 1905.8%☆☆☆☆☆
202416.6153 of 17613.1%★☆☆☆☆
202330.8115 of 16329.4%★★☆☆☆
202236.541 of 6536.9%★★☆☆☆
201931.534 of 5133.3%★★☆☆☆
201818.0134 of 15614.1%★☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMichigan percentileRating
202514.6234 of 2444.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201824.8324 of 37714.1%★☆☆☆☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMichigan percentileRating
20267.6666 of 6873.1%☆☆☆☆☆
20259.1669 of 6963.9%☆☆☆☆☆
20247.4683 of 7012.6%☆☆☆☆☆
20235.8677 of 6881.6%☆☆☆☆☆
20228.8617 of 6383.3%☆☆☆☆☆
20218.6558 of 5773.3%☆☆☆☆☆
201913.3576 of 6247.7%☆☆☆☆☆
201816.8601 of 67811.4%★☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
African American (2026)16th percentile+7 vs school
Male (2026)7th percentile~ school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)7th percentile~ school
Female (2026)5th percentile-4 vs school
Multi-racial (2026)4th percentile-5 vs school
Special Education (2025)4th percentile-7 vs school
White (2026)3rd percentile-6 vs school
By subject vs Michigan (2025-2026) ?
Social Studies24%-27 vs state
English Language Arts15%-23 vs state
Science14%-25 vs state
Math6%-27 vs state
Mathematics6%-28 vs state

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Students at Roseville Middle School are 48% African American, 40% White, 9% Two or more races, 2% Hispanic, 1% Asian.

Roseville Middle School ranks in the bottom 8.8% of Michigan middle schools.

Students who attend Roseville Middle School usually go on to attend Roseville High School

In the 2024-25 school year, 620 students attended Roseville Middle School.

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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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